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Barbara Ellis  
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 More options Oct 12 2012, 8:42 am
From: Barbara Ellis <ellisbarb...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 08:41:54 -0400
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Hello,

This is Barbara Ellis and my family (two boys) have visited Hive's Open
House events. We were wondering if anyone knew of or actually provided
mentoring in robotics? My sons signed up for a First Lego League club
earlier in the year, and although student led, the coach knew nothing about
robotics, so it quickly deteriorated into kids throwing Legos and no
building. We have a Mindstorm and quite a few Lego, Technic and Bionicle
parts; we would just love to be directed to someone or some group of
enthusiasts who they could team up with. They also have an Arduino and
really enjoyed watching a VEX demonstration some time ago...they don't
particularly need a team, they just want to learn more.

Best,
Barbara Ellis


 
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Joshua D. Johnson  
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 More options Oct 12 2012, 9:04 am
From: "Joshua D. Johnson" <objectsunlimi...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:04:00 -0400
Subject: Re: [Hive 76 Discussion] Robotics?
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Barbara, where do you live approximately? My kids are in Montgomery County
and I will be teaching a Scratch course (Scratch.MIT.edu) at their school.
Fleischer Arts was doing a simple robotics and electronic scores (7th and
Christian?) There are others in Delaware and Chester County's.
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 More options Oct 12 2012, 9:12 am
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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 06:12:11 -0700 (PDT)
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Scratch is super-easy to learn, and if you want to add real-world I/O, you can do this http://www.hive76.org/diy-scratch-io-board-using-arduino


 
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Dan Shookowsky  
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 More options Oct 12 2012, 9:13 am
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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:13:41 -0400
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MagPi magazine has articles on scratch, c, python, and using a Raspberry
PIs GPIO ports.
http://www.themagpi.com/


 
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Joshua D. Johnson  
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 More options Oct 12 2012, 9:17 am
From: "Joshua D. Johnson" <objectsunlimi...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:17:42 -0400
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As a non-programmer I've found it very useful. In terms of robotics it'll
give you the understanding to use Lego's Mindstorms, Scratch for Arduino
(S4A) Modkit and the basis for programming generally. My kids used to come
home and fight over the television, now they fight over Scratch!

Josh
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Barbara Ellis  
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 More options Oct 12 2012, 9:19 am
From: Barbara Ellis <ellisbarb...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:18:47 -0400
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Thanks! We're in Broomall but willing to travel. Do you think the school
would allow other kids in? Our Tuesday schedule is tight (AM classes in
Abington and afternoon and evening in South Philly) but other days are
flexible. I'll look into Fleischer too. Peirce has music lessons not far
from there.

Barbara

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Joshua D. Johnson  
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 More options Oct 12 2012, 9:29 am
From: "Joshua D. Johnson" <objectsunlimi...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:29:41 -0400
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I don't know, There is a local guy who was teaching Blender and intro to
electronics. He just rented a classroom one night a week, our library might
have space. I know of kids other than mine who are interested. Maybe
Mainline arts? I heard they were possibly interested in electronics
instruction.
Let us know what you find out!

Josh
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malcolm stanley  
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 More options Oct 12 2012, 10:00 am
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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:00:14 -0400
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Joshua, where are you?
I'm in Horsham and my girls are at Simmons.
I'm sure my six year old would be interested in a course if the content was
appropriate

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 More options Oct 12 2012, 10:13 am
From: "Joshua D. Johnson" <objectsunlimi...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:13:46 -0400
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I'm in Narberth, PA (Main line) and available any night except Tuesday.

To be clear I'm no genius with programming which is why I've loved Scratch,
Lego's, Arduino etc. Having said that, the logic and process behind
building a little robot that can run around your house not hitting anything
is VERY simple and kids grasp it quickly.

Scratch2 is coming out soon and will have some Kinect-ish capabilities. So
now is a great time to be involving yourself with it.

Josh
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 More options Oct 12 2012, 10:15 pm
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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 22:15:23 -0400
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thats a hike from here...
we're (daughter + me) currently building a hula dancer out of a sculpture
model and some pololu motors;
I got her some littlebits for xmas...
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