Re: Swarm?
"Andrew G. Meyer" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.hardware.lego.robotics |
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| Organization | Rufus King High School |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
In lugnet.robotics, Brian Davis wrote:
> If you mean a collective group of identical robots
Swarm as in:
<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3204/03-talk.html>
> What age & resources? One idea is to provide the class with LDraw plans for
> the robots, so the class (a) gets experience with LEGO construction, and (b)
> creates all the robots for you (not to mention they'll have a lot greater
> interest in the final result if they are part of it - group project trumps
> passive demo any day).
> For later, line-following robots that can draw lines (white melamine 4x8
> sheets are pretty cheap, as are dry-erase markers). Robotic ants in the
> classroom.
Not a bad idea, to have the kids each build an identical robot, then give 'em
the swarm challenge. I was thinking just a intro demo, really, but I {could}
turn it into curriculum. Thanks for the input!
Andrew Meyer