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From: u1mjeb@ohm.york.ac.uk (Mark J E Bellis - H601/91)
Subject: Re: Lego robotics: comments wanted
Message-ID: <1993Jun4.135115.18105@ohm.york.ac.uk>
Organization: Electronics Department, University of York, UK
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Date: Fri, 4 Jun 93 13:51:15 GMT
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In <1uld9u$24h@venus.haverford.edu> Steven Lindell <slindell@haverford.edu> writes:

>Does anyone have experience with the use of the Lego products (TC LOGO)
>for instruction?  Comments regarding their use for both children and
>college-level would be appreciated.

I don't at the moment, but i soon will - i'm gonna try to get hold
of the new Lego control lab through our electronics department.

This autumn i shall be starting on a project to make an interface
which will be able to drive Lego models, which will be cheaper and
(hopefully) simpler than Lego's system.

It will be based upon a few small 6811 boards with software being
dowloaded from a PC or Archimedes (after being written in C), and
the board will sit on the model => vehicles can be made without an
'umbilical cord' of wires to the motors etc...

I think Lego is about the best ready-made medium for building
robots, but then I would, having collected it since I was 2...

any other Lego robot builders, please identify yourselves! (in
alt.toys.lego) ;-)

mark
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Mark Bellis
2nd year undergraduate in Electronic Engineering at York University, UK
email: u1mjeb@ohm.york.ac.uk


-- 
Mark Bellis
2nd year undergraduate in Electronic Engineering at York University, UK
email: u1mjeb@ohm.york.ac.uk

