WEB LINKS FOR EDUCATORS
GENERAL & AUSTRALIAN LINKS
Mindstorms Robotics book author and Tasmanian Teacher, Chris Braken has a great web-site with activities and hints
Read about Chris by clicking this link
Another Australian teacher and author with a super web site with plenty of resources- Danien Kees :
This link takes you to Damiens web site
One of my personal favorite web sites, teaching activities and a history of robots plus much more :
http://www.thetech.org/robotics/
ROBOTICS COMPETITIONS FOR SCHOOLS
Learn about the FIRST® LEGO® League competition based on modern medicine
Here's a great opportunity for teachers looking for super project, access one of the worlds most successful school robotics competitions now also held in Victoria
Click to read more about FIRST® LEGO® League
Robocup Junior Australia has been going strong in Australia for over 10 years,read about this competition :
http://www.robocupjunior.org.au
http://www.robotevents.com/
ROBOT BUILDING
Here's a super site for lot's of programming and building instructions for NXT
http://www.domabotics.com/resources.php
Build a 5 minute NXT robot ( very few parts required too)
http://mindstorms.lego.com/buildinginstructions/- Official LEGO website - advanced building instructions
http://perso.freelug.org/benw/car/instr/part1.html- Build a LEGO car and understand the various systems in vehicles. Note : requires some pneumatic components
This page links to a range of fascinating NXT building projects for the more experienced users:
http://www.philohome.com/nxt.htm
Learn about vehicle suspension and replicating it with LEGO components
http://wwwtexbrick.com/ideas/vehicles/
A page of building, language based programming etc for the RCX brick
http://www.hempeldesigngroup.com/lego/
Rack and pinion steering - car building instructions for the RCX
http://www.philohome.com/steercar/steeringcar.htm
Remote real-time computer control of your NXT brick- make a controller out of NXT components
NXT - ALL THINGS NXT
Building with NXT, making your own sensors and modifying the NXT hardware etc:
http://www.philohome.com/nxt.htm
http://nxtasy.org/
http://www.elijahlofgren.com/nxt-tips/
TECHNICAL
Official LEGO ENGINEERING knowledge base, the most common questions are answered here
Ask the Experts
Help Topics
OFFICIAL LEGO SITE LINKS
This Official LEGO ENGINEERING site has the lot, ancillary tools to download, robotics programming and software updates, you should visit this site regularly
http://www.legoengineering.com/
This official page contains links to software , hardware and devellopers tools
OFFICIAL SOFTWARE PATCHES FOR NXT & ROBOLAB
Robolab 2.9.4 patch
LESSON PLANS
Tufts Center for Engineering education Outreach
Lesson plans and worksheets for K-12 students focussing on Engineering, Science and Mathematics
Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Academy - Comprehensive collection of lesson plans covering everything from mechanics to programming. This university has also produced comprehensive lessons on DVD's for teachers. These are available from Moore Educational
Robotics Curriculum from Carnegi Mellon
Massechutess Institute of Technology STOMP Program (Student / Teacher Outreach and Mentoring Program)
Lesson plans and worksheets for engineering in general
Redcliffe State High School- lesson plans aimed at using the LEGO to teach the QLD Science Curriculum
Robotics WebQuest - Windaroo State School
Hamilton education Rise Of TheRobots.pdf
http://www.technologystudent.com/watt/wattex.htm
http://www.technologystudent.com/robo1/robex.htm
http://www.education.rec.ri.cmu.edu/
PROGRAMMING
Here's a super site for lot's of programming and building instructions for NXT
Self callibration line following program ( great for competitions like First LEGO League and RoboCup Junior(NXT)
Try this wall following program using the NXT Ultrasonic Sensor
OR
This alternative wall follower program
NXTg Line following program
RELATED DOWNLOADS & TOOLS
LEGO Digital Designer- A free program used to design LEGO machines etc. The program
usesLEGO elements and workslike a true CAD program. It includes all the NXT parts to design robots
http://ldd.lego.com/download/
http://bricxcc.sourceforge.net/utilities.html
http://www.popbubble.com/Lego/WebBrick/
Create your own graphic images to show on the NXT brick, here's a simple image editor to use
This page contains links to a wide range of LEGO design and software sites , including programming LEGO robots using other languages
http://www.vorlesungen.uni-osnabrueck.de/informatik/robot00/ftp/lego.html
http://bricxcc.sourceforge.net/
LEGO NXT & RCX SITES & ACTIVITIES
Building and programming the LEGO humanoid robot "Alpha Rex"
http://www.convict.lu/Jeunes/RoboticsIntro_old.htm
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/epd/p/id/5221
http://www.Techxellenttraining.com.au/Resources#background.html
Download my robotics background activities here
LANGUAGE BASED PROGRAMMING FOR NXT & RCX ROBOTS
Using Visual Basic Control OSX with the RCX brick
http://bricxcc.sourceforge.net/nbc/samples/index.html
http://www.hempeldesigngroup.com/lego/pbLua/
http://homepage.mac.com/rbate/MacNQC/
http://www.hempeldesigngroup.com/lego/pbForth/index.html
Program NXT using Java
http://lejos.sourceforge.net/
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/lawrie.griffiths/vision.html
http://www.microworlds.com/solutions/mwexroboticspage2.html
http://inside.catlin.edu/site/msrobotics/html/downloads.html
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb483027.aspx
http://bricxcc.sourceforge.net/
ROBOTICS CONFERENCES
Robotics Educators Conference
LEGO ENGINEERING runs regular on-line seminars, check this link for dates and times
http://www.legoengineering.com/content/view/94/65/
TEACHING TOOLS
ZDSOFT screen recorder allows you to record actions (mouse, selection etc) on your computer screen, including voice-over instructions, and play it back as a movie. This is an invaluable tool for creating your own computer application tutorials and best of all , its FREE!
http://www.zdsoft.com/
ScreenHunter 4.0 Free is a completely free screen capture software for you to easily take screenshots. ScreenHunter can capture a rectangle area, an active window and full screen. It automatically saves captures in a BMP, JPEG or GIF file, so you don't have to stop each time and you can capture as many as you like. It also can save to Clipboard to be pasted to other programs.
Download Wisdom Screen Hunter here:
http://www.wisdom-soft.com/sh/index.htm
BLOGS, CHAT AND COMMUNITY
LUGNET is the dite for the LEGO Users Group, an extensive and very useful site:
http://www.lugnet.com/
http://thenxtstep.blogspot.com/2006/04/robolab-29-announced.html
TUTORIALS
http://faculty.uoit.ca/eklund/roboticscomp/files/TutorialNXTProgramming.pdf
http://www.ortop.org/NXT_Tutorial/index.html
http://inside.catlin.edu/site/msrobotics/html/downloads.html
http://www.legoedwest.com/news.php?item.14.6
http://teachcomputers.wordpress.com/2007/01/12/good-list-of-tutorials-for-the-nxt/
http://econtent.typepad.com/econtent/2006/09/tutorials_for_n.html
http://pdqscience.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/nxt-tutorials/
ROBOTS IN GENERAL
http://www.itee.adfa.edu.au/~alar/
University site with plenty of information about advanced robots and adaptive behaviors
Robotics handbook- explores past , present and future
http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Robotics/Robots/
New Scientist article :robot cars will race in real traffic.
ANDROIDS
Wikipedia- List of fictional robots and androids
The Honda Robot - ASIMO
Android world
EMOTIONAL ROBOTS
http://www.gizmowatch.com/entry/mit-s-nexi-the-cartoonish-emotional-robot/
http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/%7Eka/socialrobot.mpeg
http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/advancements-in-robotics-mits-nexi-the-emotional-robot
Should robots feel? Is an emotional robot a good idea?
INDUSTRY SITES
CSIRO Australia- links to real world robots
http://www.araa.asn.au/research/
The Australian Robotics and Automation Association Inc. (formerly the Australian Robot Association Inc.) is a professional society in Australia and New Zealand that is concerned with robots, their applications and their implications, and related automation technologies. This site has some great information about robots and serves as a starting point for students considering a career in robotics
http://www.bsdrobotics.com/main.htm
Denso - rproducts and robotic applications
Industrial sites for real-life robots
http://www.corbettlifescience.com/control.cfm?page=Dir_Exec&langID=1
Industry site- Medical robots
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwell_Automation
PAGES WITH LEGO LINKS
http://www.legoengineering.com/content/view/88/65/
Official LEGO site
http://www.restena.lu/convict/Jeunes/LEGO_LINKS.htm
http://nxtbot.com
http://www.extremenxt.com/lego.htm
http://membres.lycos.fr/vcallede/lego/lienslego.htm
OTHER
Sustainability - How the Hybrid car works
mt. Page revised 26/8/2010
