ROBOTMAK3RS Blog

Prof. Dr. Chris Rogers at  Tufts University who has been one of the main contributors to ROBOLAB and the  LABView  edition for LEGO® MINDSTORMS, has created a series of challenges for teams all over the world to take part online: Dr. E's Challenges . The six challenges will be published by and by (likely each two weeks) and have to be solved by teams of two or three students using LEGO® MINDSTORMS NXT. The solutions for a challenge that have been sent in until the associated deadline (by video, text etc) are rated by all participating teams; the team who submitted the one that gets the highest over-all rating will receive a small price. Teams from all over the world  are invited to take part, so go for it! As the competition is running for some days already, the deadline for submissions for the first challenge " Silly walks " is somewhat tight now at 15th of February.

I love this video from Tufts University.  It show a couple of students from the EN10 subject showing off the spelling game they build for kids. From what I can tell, each block has a particular colour, and in each slot is a light/colour sensor.  The NXT reads in the combination, figures out if it is a valid word (lookup table??).  If it is a real word, the little leprechaun moves along the rainbow. What makes the video for me is the enthusiasm of the (university level) students for a spelling game.  Oh, and the green hats :) Video is embedded from Facebook, so not sure if it'll work. Direct link here -  https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=180530342035361