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== Virtual robotics ==
== Virtual robotics ==


A combination of LEGO Digital Designer and Lego Mindstorms could allow to design and program virtual robots.
A combination of LEGO Digital Designer and Lego Mindstorms {{ref|lego}} could allow to design and program virtual robots.


== Robotics Mentoring ==
== Robotics Mentoring ==
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== References ==
== References ==


* {{note|lego}} [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms Lego Mindstorms], [http://ldd.lego.com/ LEGO Digital Designer]
* {{note|Robot_Odyssey}} [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Odyssey Robot Odyssey] - A 1984 TRS-80 Color Computer robot programming game from The Learning Company (Java Version [http://www.droidquest.com/ DroidQuest] is free for personal or educational uses)
* {{note|Robot_Odyssey}} [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Odyssey Robot Odyssey] - A 1984 TRS-80 Color Computer robot programming game from The Learning Company (Java Version [http://www.droidquest.com/ DroidQuest] is free for personal or educational uses)


== External links ==
== External links ==


* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms Lego Mindstorms], [http://ldd.lego.com/ LEGO Digital Designer]
* [http://www.fischertechnik.com/html/computing.html Fischertechnik Robotics]
* [http://www.fischertechnik.com/html/computing.html Fischertechnik Robotics]
* [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASURO ASURO] - 50 € robot from DLR School Lab (German Wikipedia), English: [http://www.arexx.com/arexx.php?cmd=goto&cparam=p_asuro arexx.com]
* [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASURO ASURO] - 50 € robot from DLR School Lab (German Wikipedia), English: [http://www.arexx.com/arexx.php?cmd=goto&cparam=p_asuro arexx.com]

Revision as of 09:51, 5 December 2007

To educate more engineers pupils may need some encouragement. Robotics seem a sensible choice.

Virtual robotics

A combination of LEGO Digital Designer and Lego Mindstorms [1] could allow to design and program virtual robots.

Robotics Mentoring

A limited number of actual hardware robots could create motivation (through "artificial" scarcity) for pupils to be allowed to work with the hardware robots. Robot games like Robot Odyssey [2] could be used as qualification and for mentoring purposes: Pupils are motivated to solve the game as qualification, as entertainment and because a mentor offers support and encouragement in solving the puzzles in the game. A mentor would probably need guidance in how to help a pupil to solve puzzles him - or herself, not through hints given by the mentor. A Journal entry stating that the game had been solved could be required to run the software that allowed to program actual robots.

References

External links