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LEGO Robotics Projects
with Linda Hamilton
  • Interactive Internet Robotics from City Traffic to Mars


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Linda Hamilton
  • Marshall University Math Instructor
  • MA in Mathematics
  • LEGO Specialist at Rahall Transportation Institute
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Programming
over the Internet
  • A car, a monorail, and other vehicles are available for Teleoperation at the LEGO SENSORS City.
  • The live view on http://legocamera.marshall.edu is from the side of the City that can be programmed over the internet by RoboLab.
  • From the Red Rover Red Rover side you can operate a Mars Rover near the South Pole as well as the other monorail, a gate, and other vehicles in the City.
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SENSORS CITY
  • Science and Engineering NASA Site of Remote Sensing
  • City Transportation
    • Nick J. Rahall, II
      Appalachian Transportation
      Institute
    • Marshall University
  • Linda Hamilton  hamilton@marshall.edu
  • http://www.marshall.edu/LEGO
  • http://SENSORSCITY.marshall.edu
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LEGO CITY
  •  Housed at Nick J. Rahall, II Appalachian Transportation Institute
  •  SENSORSCITY NASA remote sensing  site
  •  Red Rover site


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LEGO Educational Materials
  • RCX
  • Red Rover Red Rover
    • Classroom projects
    • Internet connections
  • RoboLab
    • Classroom projects
    • Internet connection
    • Remote sensing



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LEGO ROBOTICS
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Red Rover
  • Davis Creek Elementary
  • Student Astronauts
  • Mars Stations
  • South Pole
  • MU RTI
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Red Rover Teleoperation

  • http://LEGO.marshall.edu
  •  Use direction buttons to operate
  •  Run programs
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Web Interface for RED ROVER
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RoboLab Programming
  •  Sensors
  •  Motors and lights
  •  Multi-tasking
  •  Structures
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MIT Mindfest
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Tufts
  • RoboLab
  • SENSORS
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Marshall
  • Classes
  • Independent study
  • GA’s
  • K-12 Outreach
  •  FIRST LEGO League


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Red Rover, Red Rover,
Send Students Right Over!
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Group Projects
Systems Engineering
  • Groups worked on parts and then brought it all together
  • Programming was a group effort
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DC Mars Colony
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Virtual Space Camp
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Then We Met . . .
Our Faces On Their Computer!
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Red Rover
Viewed By Homer Hickam
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Inspiration of  Homer Hickam
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Big Creek High
  • High School where Homer Hickam went
  • Robotics and Red Rover
  • Internet connect with middle and elementary schools
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Rocket Launch
  •  Planning with LEGO rocket
  • Robotics and Red Rover to Big Creek
  •  Rockets in class
  •  Rocket Launch
    •  Elementary
    •  Middle
    •  High school


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LEGO CITY
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Programming
over the Internet
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Programming
for remote data logging
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SENSORSCITY
by Students
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Which Way is up?
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SENSORSCITY August 2004
  • City Fair
  • Transportation
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SENSORS CITY
  • Science and Engineering NASA Site of Remote Sensing
  • City Transportation
    • Nick J. Rahall, II
      Appalachian Transportation
      Institute
    • Marshall University
  • Linda Hamilton  hamilton@marshall.edu
  • http://www.marshall.edu/LEGO
  • http://SENSORSCITY.marshall.edu