[plug] Fwd: ECHALK: HELP REQUESTED IN ROBOTICS

[Shayne O'Neill]

Dunno bout flight robotics, but parallax has some cool K8-12 level
robotics kits based on the basic-stamp. The basic stamp stuff has been
freakin awesome stuff to use in low-level embedded stuff in jobs I've
done. We built a board that interfaced a comodity VCR to RS232 in about 15
lines of human readable code. I can give you a heads up that these little
suckers are in use in mil-spec gear too (I know that because I designed
some of it and its in active service). Best of all its probably
understandable by bright kids, being basic and all. Dunno bout FLIGHT
robotics tho, but it'd be dead easy to build a servo controler for a model
plane with one.

On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Leon Brooks wrote:

> Any takers? (-:
>
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> Subject: ECHALK: HELP REQUESTED IN ROBOTICS
> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 20:05:53 +0800
> From: "Michael John McGarry" <mmcgarry AT ii DOT net>
> To: "echalk List" <DESPAMMED>
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> Greetings Echalkians,
>
> Do you have any curriculum materials for YEAR 10 Flight Robotics that you are
>  willing to share?
>
> A science teaching colleague will be teaching Flight Robotics to our Year 10
>  Aeronautics students for the first time during Semester 1, next year (2003).
>
> Could any Echalkians who are willing to share some of their Robotics
>  curriculum materials please advise me by email?
>
> mmcgarry AT morleyhs DOT wa DOT edu DOT au
>
> Many thanks to all kind Santas. You help in very much appreciated.
>
> Mike McGarry
> HoD: Science
> Morley Senior High School
>
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> He's looking for curriculum materials, but I bet anything useful in the
> classroom and about robotics would be welcome.
>
> Cheers; Leon
>
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