Yesterday was great. I sat down with Ginger, Basil, and Violet and we put together a Lego Rover ‘bot. Not much. Just something to move forward, backward, turn, and respond when bumping into stuff. Not only were the kids hooked (especially Basil), but I am, too. I’m thinking up lesson plans and developing programs to help me with them. I’ve asked
Tag: mindstorms
MindStorms tomorrow!
Tomorrow, our adventures into programming Lego Mindstorms begin. It took a little doing, but I managed to get XSLisp compiled and working on my brick. I’ll be posting a HOWTO shortly. For starters, we’re just going to build a simple rover using the program in this paper. You could consider this cheating since I haven’t had time to come up with anything really didactic. That’s ok, though. I don’t want to bore them to tears right out of the gate. Perhaps we’ll take the rover and modify it somehow over time.