We use Lego Mindstorms introduce you to a variety of concepts and skills, including: introductory computer programming, object-based programming, project design and planning, group work, engineering, and working with your hands. You will have the opportunity to complete multiple robotics investigations involving inquiry and guided research, problem solving, working in teams, and documentation as they investigate how robots make decisions and navigate their environment.
Robot Building Guides (All good base robots for challenges)
NXT Five Minute Bot
Robot Educator Model
Taskbot
Presentations and Challenges (used as part of the Tech Ed class)
Challenge 1 - Forward and Back
Challenge 2 - It's the Robot's Turn
Challenge 3 - Things That Go Bump
Challenge 4 - The Maze
In our Exploring Robotics class, we use a complete multimedia curriculum and do a different set of challenges.
Our main curriculum is Robotics Engineering Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. This multimedia curriculum is an ideal tool to introduce robots. Students learn how to program basic robot behaviors using motors and rotation, sound, light, touch and ultrasonic sensors. Fifteen in-depth research lessons are based on real-world robots. Step-by-step videos teach students how to use the programming language, build robots, basic robot behavior, use of sensors, robot competition, etc. In Vol. 2, students develop innovative robotic solutions to open-ended engineering problems.
Links
http://www.ortop.org/NXT_Tutorial/html/essentials.html - Great intro tutorial complete with videos
http://www.ortop.org/NXT_Tutorial/html/advanced.html - A good set of videos on advanced techniques
http://www.centraltexasfll.org/
http://www.firstlegoleague.org/
http://mindstorms.lego.com/
http://www.lego.com/education
http://www.nxtprograms.com/index.html
http://www.domabotics.com/resources.php
http://www.legoengineering.com/
Video Tutorials
There are many, many video tutorials available on YouTube. Several are shown below (but there are lots of others).
To view a tutorial, select one from the list and press Play (or simply click the video). To view the tutorials full screen, click the full screen button at the buttom of the video.
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