17 Jul
2013
17 Jul
'13
2:23 p.m.
this would be a good way to bridge the generations. i always thought there was way too
much age segregation in schools and kids should learn to teach eachother. anybody know
any offhand?
also...subject line
Jul 17, 2013 02:16:28 PM, dis(a)gruntle.org wrote:
Have you thought about approaching any of the local high school or middle school robotics
clubs? I know there are plenty on this side of the bay, I assume east bay schools also
have some. Possibly some cool outreach opportunities and getting more kids involved in
sudokids?
Last night went pretty well overall despite not
getting my beer machine operational due to disappointing answers to such questions as
"how many power cords into power strips into power cords can I connect?" and the
ever popular "will the plumbing leak where you least expect it?" We did have
some newbies there working on a robotics project for a school assignment and let me tell
you, there's something about the smell of burning servos that just can't be beat.
Overall their objective is to use machine vision as a feedback for actuators, seems
pretty cool. Rabbit and I put together some power hardware to map 4D visualizations to
some addressable LED strips for a burning man project. We did a little probing of the
door raspi but couldn't get a rise out of the relevant GPIO pin so I defer to the
original system designers, but volunteer to fabricate a plug-in circuit board to
streamline the component layout. Also got some soldering assistance from one of the sudo
kids who gravitated t
oward the table full of wires.
This final point lead me to an idea - I'd
like to incorporate a sudokids robotics event once a month. Open to any and all ideas as
to how this would play out, but at minimum we could have them build and compete remote
controlled rovers, in both co-op and free for all modes of course. Let me know if you
have any ideas for kid-friendly microcontroller projects. I'd like to develop this
idea and start mid-september.
Happy Hacking,
hol
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On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Eddan Katz eddan(a)clear.net> wrote:
+ 1. (though it needs to start early so enough so that
it doesn't end late)
You guys are awesome.
sent from eddan.com
On Jul 17, 2013, at 1:42 PM, Marina Kukso marina.kukso(a)gmail.com> wrote:
it may come as no surprise that i support the idea of a sudo kids robotics night 100%. i
think we should ask the kids what project they'd like to do. hol, if you're around
next tuesday, maybe you can introduce the idea to the kids and together we can frame a
realistic project?
- marina
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Hol Gaskill hol(a)gaskill.com> wrote:
Hi Folks,