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MindStorms Madness

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the liberal-arts dept.

plluke writes "I'm a Teaching Assistant for a course named CS148: Building Intelligent Robots offered by the CS Department at Brown University. Our robots were made/programmed/run on Lego MindStorms (with LegOS). Tres funky results include probabilistic sonar mappers, a bipedal walker, and a bartender. The final exhibition page is here and contains the aforementioned funky results."

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  1. Mindstorms + CS by ViXX0r · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In my "Advanced Architechture" course at university, we got to build robots out of mindstorms as well... had to find their way around a maze and other various tasks. Interesting entries. Definately cool and a fun semester.

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    University - a box of academia nuts.
  2. Courseware at Brown by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I think the projects are fantastic. If only one of these people develops a novel, useful application of robotics, we will be a step closer to colonization of space, and obsolescence for those pesky prolitarians.

  3. This is wonderful! by batkid · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ever since I had a chance to play with a set of LEGO Mindstorm around 1 year ago, I was convinced that this is a great tool for CS education. Since then, I have taken up a teaching position at a college in Computer Science and I've been trying to get the department to use Mindstorm to teach first year CS. I believe that this can be done and will be good for the students. Knowing that another university is doing the same thing is very reassuring.

    Apparently, this course is either their second/thrid course in CS. What do you guys think of using Mindstorm as a first course in CS?