First LEGO Engineering Symposium

http://ceeo.tufts.edu/content/view/108
From the Center for Engineering Educational Outreach, comes documents, code and other materials for LEGO Mindstorms activities. Some good ideas in here including how to use Bluetooth and datalogging.

Software Engineering Demo for a K-5 Career Fair?

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/11/2147256&tid=146

Some good ideas along with some of the usual junk on Slashdot. Worth reading but long.

Good post on RobotC

http://mindsquawl.blogspot.com/2007/02/programming-nxt-choice-choice-choice_04.html

The author gives a detailed review of RobotC.

Tribot Radar

http://kisd.de/~krystian/nxt/

An ingenious use of the NXT distance sensor: a radar system!

More info about robot radar:

http://www.bnxt.com/paper/radar_display

Cisco’s Packetville

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/779/edu/packetville/index.html

Cisco has created lesson plans, activities, games, and other resources to help you engage students in IT. Requires login.

Micron’s K-12 Resources

http://www.micron.com/k12/

Micron believes that supporting math and science education is critical to cultivating tomorrow’s technology leaders. That’s why Micron provides teachers with opportunities and tools designed to excite students about science, math, and engineering using hands-on, real-world applications. In addition to content rich Web resources, Micron provides classroom presenters, workshops and site visits in Idaho and Virginia. As well, Micron provides an interactive Web resource to introduce students to high-tech career options

Some NXT robots with code

http://home.earthlink.net/~xaos69/NXT/

Includes line follower and obstacle avoidance. Pretty advanced in some cases.

NXT Sensor info

Info on the NXT ultrasonic sensor

http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/tik/education/lectures/PPS/mindstorms/sa_nxt/index.php

http://www.wooster.edu/physics/jacobs/220/Appendix_6_Ultrasonic_Sensor_hardware_schematic.pdf – schematic of sensor

http://www.wooster.edu/physics/jacobs/220/robot.html – more schematics

A tool enabling the creation of graphics for display on the NXT LCD

http://kisd.de/~krystian/nxt/http://nxtasy.org/2006/10/01/nxtricedit-pc-ric-editor/

The only way I have seen to create image files for the NXT display.

Binary and Communication Systems

http://www.teachengineering.org/view_activity.php?url=http://www.teachengineering.com/collection/wpi_/activities/wpi_coding/wpi_code.xml

The purpose of this activity is to introduce students to the concept of binary coding as a language and its practical applications in digital and communication systems.This project is intended to give students a deeper appreciation for communication systems and an understanding of how binary symbols are used to transmit information.