Ho, Ho, Ho

Robotic Santa has been spotted in our house....we are all ready.

Earlier today, Josep working on Santa's sleigh

Sleigh all finished, and taking a well deserved break

Josep working on reindeer and Santa

171 steps later: finished project!

Santa under the tree, with abominable snow cat

Happy Holidays to all!

Santa's Sleigh EV3

A while back RoboCAMP sent me a link to this EV3 Santa project.

Josep and I will try to build it over the holidays and bring it to Academy on Tuesday.

I do not know for how long they will have it up, but right now you can see the building directions and download the program online here.

Enjoy!


VIDEO: RoboCAMP - Santa Claus's Sleigh LEGO Mindstorms EV3

Mindstorms

Three generations of smart bricks.

First of all, let me say that I was very proud of how your projects performed at our showcase. Congratulations.

Today we spent some time discussing what we are going to cover next year.

We are pretty much done with Lego WeDo for now, although we may revisit some complicated projects later in the winter. Starting in January we are going to start building with Lego Mindstorms.

Lego Mindstorms provides a more sophisticated building platform, with more sensors and motors than WeDo, and with a steeper programming learning curve.

I think our students are ready for the challenge.

VIDEO: Camila Bottke: LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3



Enjoy the holidays!