ray@cs.odu.edu (Dennis Ray) (01/16/90)
I have an urgent need of potential sources of small educational/hobby mobile robot kits. I have a dozen or so groups of local high school students that I want to challenge with Saturday afternoon robotic projects. In general I want the students to assemble a small unit during the next couple of weeks and use it as an entry in a local competition. The exact competition will be a function of the capabilities of the robotic units. I would hope to find small, mobile, programmable units with one or two sensors of their surroundings. None of my known resources can supply suitable units in the time frame when needed. The proposed project schedule has suddenly been advanced a month or so. I need to place orders within days with a delivery in less than a week. If you can help, please send info (company and phone number) to Dennis Ray ray@cs.odu.edu
nagle@well.UUCP (John Nagle) (01/18/90)
In article <11003@xanth.cs.odu.edu> ray@cs.odu.edu (Dennis Ray) writes: >I have an urgent need of potential sources of small educational/hobby >mobile robot kits. I have a dozen or so groups of local high school >students that I want to challenge with Saturday afternoon robotic projects. Mitchel Resnick reports, in his paper "LEGO, Logo, and Life", on exactly such kits. He writes "LEGO Systems, Inc, markets a version of LEGO/Logo under the product name LEGO TC logo. Logo Computer Systems implemented the software for the commercial version." The paper can be found in "Artificial Life", ed. by Christopher G. Langton, 1989, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-09356-1. I do not have a source for Lego TC logo, but would suggest looking up Lego Systems in the usual references and contacting them. John Nagle