Sean at Robotics Camp

I got a couple of short videos of Sean at Robotics Camp from this past week. I lifted these from a CD the councilors made. They use Lego Mindstorms, which is becoming a more and more common product in classrooms. I've used an older version of the kit in the classroom myself for a few years. It's fabulous stuff, but I wanted to move into a programing environment that was more object oriented, but that's another story.

The first is he and his partner's attempt at building a robot to run a maze. The idea is to use a light sensor to have the robot "see" the black lines and to adjust its path accordingly. As you'll see, it fails. Sean's line is that he and his partner argued on this one almost from the beginning.



Actually, you can see the robot trying to turn as Sean is pushing it. I kinda wished he just let it go, even if it turned the wrong way.

This second video is the result of a project where the kids had to design amusement park rides. This time it goes a bit better.



Mike