Welcome to the home page for the Wintersession '00 Robotic Design Studio course! This page is for information specific to the Wintersession '00 version of the course. For more general information and details about previous versions of the course (including an on-line museum of past projects), see the main page for Robotic Design Studio.

On-line Museum of Robotics Projects for Wintersession 2000

Students

• Class photo album.

Handouts

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General Information

• Course Information (includes syllabus/schedule)
• Challenges: assignments for first 6 days of the course
• One document containing all the course handouts (currently the 1999 version, to be updated soon)

Handy Boards and Handy Logo

• Handy Logo Summary
• Handy Logo By Example
• Sample Handy Logo Commands
• The Handy Logo Reference Manual, by Fred Martin and Brian Silverman
• Sample Handy Logo Programs:
  • SciBorg Line-Following Code

LEGO design

• The Art of LEGO Design, by Fred Martin
• Building Robust LEGO Structures
• LEGO Gears and Motors

Crickets

• Introduction to Cricket Logo
• Cricket Logo Reference Manual
• Communicating With Crickets

Related Papers

• Toys to Think With
• Beyond Black Boxes

Other Documentation

• Nike accounts: the place to save your files and publish web pages.
• How to create and publish your own web pages.
• FTP clients: Winsock-FTP (PCs) and Fetch (Macs)