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- Autonomous Lego Robotics - Class held at Case Western Reserve University using Lego beams, plates, gears, practical programming, mechanics, and software. Information provided about course.
www.eecs.cwru.edu/courses/lego375
- Beyond Black Boxes - Article concerns enriching children by giving them scientific opportunities. One method used is with the programmable Cricket computer component.
el.www.media.mit.edu/projects/bbb
- CommonWealth: MBA Adventures in LEGOland - Article about the manufacturing and distribution of Lego bricks. Carl Fortin '64, Vice President of Finance of LEGO Systems in North America takes 15 young students on a tour of the Lego facility in Enfield, Connecticut.
www.som.umass.edu/som/pub/cw-sp97/lego.html
- Crickets: Tiny Computers for Big Ideas - Can be used for robotic applications, body-monitoring, and data collecting. Provides technical information, details, and educational links.
lcs.www.media.mit.edu/people/fredm/projects/cricket
- ESG Lego Robotics Seminar - A basic robotics and mechanics class at MIT that teaches how to build a functioning robot using Lego bricks.
web.mit.edu/esg/proj/ic/www/lego.html
- ICOBotics Software - Teaches basic computer programming and robotics to junior high and high school students.
www.micro.caltech.edu/research/icobotics
- J and J's Robotics in the Classroom - Kids and teachers learn how to build and program robots. Links to Robodome, a classroom designed specifically to teach robotics.
www.occdsb.on.ca/~proj4632
- LDAPS: Lego Engineer - The graphical programming environment for the Lego Dacta serial interface box. Provides FAQ, free downloads, teachers guide, installment requirements, and curriculum ideas.
ldaps.arc.nasa.gov/LEGOEngineer
- Minnesota First Lego League - An academic competition that allows kids to demonstrate their creativity, teamwork, and understanding of technology competing with Lego robots they designed, built and programmed themselves.
www.hightechkids.org/fll
- MIT Programmable Brick Project - The research project from which Mindstorms grew. Lots of information here, in geek-digestible form.
el.www.media.mit.edu/groups/el/projects/programmable-brick
- MIT's Lego Robot Design Competition Project - Students are given a kit with Lego parts, sensors, motors, wire, batteries, and electronics. They have one month to design and build a computer-controlled robot.
lcs.www.media.mit.edu/people/fredm/projects/6270
- Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Laboratory - College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. Features the work of seven design and engineering groups using the Lego system.
www.nd.edu/~lego
- Pitsco Lego Dacta - Specializes in educational activities including Robolab, eLAB, the Aquaport Launcher, and the revolutionary Spectrum System K-6 curriculum. Features how to apply for a grant, coming events, newsletter, and standards.
www.pitsco-legodacta.com
- Robolab - Innovative educational robotics program offered by National Instruments, Lego Dacta, and Tufts University.
www.ni.com/robolab
- Robolab: Lego Mindstorm for Schools - Product overview, ordering information, resources, news, and project description and photographs.
www.lego.com/dacta/robolab/default.htm
- Robotic Design Studio - Students learn how to design, assemble, and program robots made out of Lego parts, sensors, motors, and a palm-sized computer. Includes an on-line museum of robot projects.
www.wellesley.edu/Physics/Rberg/rds.html
- Robots of Brown University's AI Lab - Pictures of the Legobots from Brown's course on 'Building Intelligent Robots'.
www.cs.brown.edu/research/robotics/robots/legobots.html
- The Epistemology and Learning Group - MIT Media Lab explores how new technologies can enable new ways of thinking, learning, and designing. Discussion centered on the Future of Learning and Lifelong Kindergarten program.
lcs.www.media.mit.edu/groups/el
- University of Aarhus: Lego Lab - Lab used for teaching and researching simple robot technology, including the use of Lego MindStorms RCX microcontroller.
legolab.daimi.aau.dk
- Utrecht University: Lego Robot - Department of Computer Science investigates whether to use Lego Robots in robotics teaching, as a means for students to understand sensors, control, and precision.
www.cs.uu.nl/~markov/lego
- Utrecht University: Lego Robot Pages - Department of Computer Science investigates whether Lego robots can be used in their robotics teaching. Links to the RCX Command Center.
www.cs.ruu.nl/people/markov/lego/index.html
- Weird Richard's Lego Bricks - Offers hundreds of lesson plans and activities using Lego bricks.
www.weirdrichard.com
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