Today, Pernille France, the head of LEGO Mindstorms from Denmark paid a visit to the CEEO. It was really cool to listen about the news things happening.
Earlier in the month there was a STEM EXPO in Melrose. I loaded up Bruce the Textrix Bird and a whole bunch of NXT bots into Dave McAndrews car for this fun event to make some candy pusher robots. Candy Pusher Robot
This past month I ran several LEGO workshops at the Roosevelt School and the Horace Mann school in Melrose for 5th grade students. There was a nice article in the newspaper today about the workshops.
The students used Robolab which was written at the Tufts CEEO. We used the Pilot version of Robolab. If you want to learn about LEGO Robots, look at the LEGO Engineering web-site run by Tufts.
Laptops running Robolab Pilot
In the morning, the students learned to use Robolab to make LEGO RCX robots move back and forth. LEGO RCX kits are discontinued, but you can buy them on Craig’s List or E-bay. If you want a new LEGO Robot kit, you can buy the LEGO NXT Kit.
LEGO RCX robot
Later in the morning, the robots were programmed to kick a ball, respond to a touch sensor, and do simple line tracking.
LEGO Robot with a ball kicker
Line tracking in the Green City
In the afternoon, the kids played a game from LEGO called the Green City Challenge.
Green City Challenge with Windmill
