Robotics?

[Barbara Ellis]

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

[Joshua D. Johnson]

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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[pezman]

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

[Dan Shookowsky]

MagPi magazine has articles on scratch, c, python, and using a Raspberry PIs GPIO ports.

http://www.themagpi.com/

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 9:12 AM, pezman <mikeh...@gmail.com> wrote:

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

[Joshua D. Johnson]

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

On Oct 12, 2012 9:12 AM, "pezman" <mikeh...@gmail.com> wrote:

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

[Barbara Ellis]

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]

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

[malcolm stanley]

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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[Joshua D. Johnson]

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

[malcolm stanley]

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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