LEGO K-12 Math/Science
Projects of Linda Hamilton
From Here to Mars and Back
with Robotics
and Group Problem Solving
March 27, 2002
http://www.marshall.edu/LEGO
Hamilton@marshall.edu
SENSORSCITY
Science and Math on the Internet
LEGO robotics has gone cyber science.
The LEGO CITY at Marshall University is ready for remote
sensing. The LEGO computers can be programmed over the
Internet to run and gather data from you home or school.
Run the monorail, have it remain at the station long enough
for safe boarding, then move it on to the next. Data log the
number and time of the stops. Keep count of the cars
through the intersection, Do the entire information
gathering without having to stand around for the count. Use
the programming that transportation professionals and
NASA uses. SENSORS CITY is part the Science and
Engineering NASA Site of Remote Sensing (SENSORS) of
Tufts University.
Mars and Back Time Line
Red Rover Davis Creek
School Board of Education
NASA
PTA
Red Rover to other schools
Space Science
Star Shine
NASA TV
NASA SCIENCE
RoboLab programming
Transportation at Nick J. Rahall, II
Appalachian Transportation Institute
SENSORSCITY
LEGO Dacta Software
and Materials
Red Rover Red Rover
Classroom projects
Internet connections
Internet Rocket Launch by LEGO
Robotics
RoboLab
Classroom projects
Internet connection
Remote sensing
SENSORSCITY
Red Rover
In Class
Among classes
Among schools
To other states
With the world
RoboLab
In class small groups
In class large group
Systems Engineering
Small groups
Projects coordinated
together
http://SENSORSCITY.marshall.edu
LEGO Projects
LEGO Yellow Mini Sets provide
students a background for later models.
http://boe.cabe.k12.wv.us/daviscre/LEGOsitemap.htm
The Wreck of the
Miss Adventure . . .
The Wreck of the Miss
Adventure
The Wreck of the Miss Adventure
Miss Adventure
Presentation
To the 4th
grade
Intelligent House
With Control Lab
To arrive at Mars Takes
Ideas
Planning
Resources
People working together
The Red Rover Mars Box
Red Rover, Red Rover,
Send Students Right Over!
Red Rover
Mazes On Mars
Red Rover Pictures
Rover Pictures . . .
Rover Camera Pictures . . .
Addition to Rover . . .
A New Arm
Armadale Primary School
Melbourne, Australia
Saw Us Via the Rover Camera
Then We Met . . .
Our Faces On Their Computer!
WV
AU
Sunday: December 13, 1998 5:00PM
8:00AM Monday: December 14, 1998
Australian Connection II
Australian Connection II
Australian Connection III
Continuing
communication
between continents
Our New Mars Mining Box
Red Rover
Early Remote Sensing Ideas
MIT MindFest
Robotics
Starter Sets
Cities and
Transportation
Other
Starter Set
ROBOTS
Intelligent House and
Robotic Amusement
LEGO ROBOTICS
Plan
Build
Program
More RCX Robotics
LEGO Robots
Robots and RoboLab
ROBOLAB Programming
LEGO Easter Bunny
Robot and Bunny
Group Projects
Systems Engineering
Virtual Space Camp
Weeklong
Saturdays
Practice for Red Rover Goes to Mars
After school Play
Virtual Space Camp
SEM
Christmas Factory
Christmas Factory
Groups worked on parts and then
brought it all together
Programming was a group effort
Christmas Factory Program
Cornell Mars Workshop
StarShine
Mars Millennium Project
Mars Colony
DC Mars Colony ‘99
DC Mars Colony Display Box
With RCX
http://boe.cabe.k12.wv.us/daviscre/legositemap.htm
Red Rover
Viewed By Homer Hickam
Red
Rover
Goes To
Mars
Inspiration of Homer Hickam
Continued Inspiration
of Homer Hickam
Next . . .
Red Rover & Students Will
Go To Mars!
http://boe.cabe.k12.wv.us/daviscre/
http://planetary.org/
Big Creek High
High School where Homer Hickam
went
Robotics and Red Rover
Internet connect with middle and
elementary schools
Big Creek
Rocket Launch
Planning with LEGO rocket
Summer picnic
Robotics and Red Rover to Big Creek
Rockets in class
Rocket Launch
Elementary
Middle
High school
Rocket Launch Movie
Planning with LEGO rocket
Summer picnic
Robotics and Red Rover to Big Creek
Rockets in class
Rocket Launch
Elementary
Middle
High school
LEGO CITY
Housed at Nick J. Rahall, II
Appalachian Transportation Institute
SENSORSCITY NASA remote
sensing site
Red Rover site
Transportation
At schools and MU
Remote Sensing
on December 11, 2001
from Barboursville Middle School
Getting data remotely appeared to be easy for three groups of 6th graders.
From their computers in their rooms, the students logged onto
http://www.marshall.edu/LEGO. They checked out some of the pictures of
what some of their classmates have done on the current year. They clicked
the LEGO camera link to see a live picture of the LEGO CITY.
Clicking on SENSORSCITY link, http://SENSORSCITY.marshall.edu, each
group went to work. They made an account with a name and password they
would remember, checked out the schedule and signed up for a time slot.
Some chose programs to run from those at the site at
http://sensorscity.marshall.edu/city/pages/vi while they looked through the
pictures and descriptions of the scenarios.
Others wrote or changed programs using the RoboLab they had. In one room
they also watched and operated the CITY with Red Rover soft ware. See
instructions to try out Red Rover at the City. The fun came in submitting
missions to SENSORS CITY and watching the monorail move while watching
over the Internet on the live camera. The little car models moving traffic. The
data that comes back over the internet as a graph makes it much easier to
compute the car rate.
Transportation Workshops
Local Schools
Nick J. Rahall,II Appalachian
Transportation Institute at Marshall
University
Schools through out Appalachia
Intelligent Transportation
Building Transportation
Robotics from Afar
and at the
LEGO CITY
RoboLab Programming *.
Sensors
Motors and lights
Multi-tasking
Structures
Programming over the Internet
A car, a monorail and other transportation are
available for Teleoperation at the LEGO
SENSORS City since September of 2001.
From the Red Rover Red Rover side you can
operated the other monorail and gate.
The live view on
http://legocamera.marshall.edu shows the
end of the CITY that can be programmed over
the internet by RoboLab.
Through the Red Rover Red Rover software
you can operate and see the the view from
the opposite side.
Red Rover Teleoperation
Install software for earth site or buy
and use Mars site
CONNECT to Lego.marshall.edu
Use direction buttons to operate
Run programs
Programming
over the Internet
LEGO CITY
SENSORS CITY
Science and Engineering NASA Site of
Remote Sensing
City Transportation
Nick J. Rahall, II
Appalachian Transportation
Institute
Marshall University
Linda Hamilton hamilton@marshall.edu
http://www.marshall.edu/LEGO
http://SENSORSCITY.marshall.edu
Nick J. Rahall, II Appalachian Transportation Institute
The Nick J. Rahall, II Appalachian Transportation Institute (RTI) is pleased to announce that its LEGO 24-Hour
City is now an official Science and Engineering NASA Site of Remote Sensing (SENSORS).
SENSORS is a NASA Leading Educators to Applications, Research, and NASA-related Educational
Resources in Science Cooperative Agreement Notice. The purpose is to enhance K-12 science, math,
technology, and geography education through Internet-based products derived from NASA mission content.
With the use of telerobotics and LEGO RCX robots, students can explore and discover different environments.
The Appalachian Transportation Institute is located at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. One
of the goals of the RTI is to provide quality transportation-related programs to elementary, middle, and high
school students, with the express purpose of attracting students to careers in transportation fields. Each year,
a variety of workshops are sponsored which enable students to explore the technologies and issues related to
transportation in the United States.
The LEGO 24-Hour City at RTI is built around the LEGO Dacta RCX intelligent programmable brick. Using
LEGO Dacta’s ROBOLAB software, students at RTI are able to program each of the city’s vehicles and traffic
control elements. Previously,using Red Rover software, students at other sites could remotely activate the
motors and lights on the City’s LEGO models and run set up programs. Now, using the Internet, students from
anywhere can also program the City’s elements themselves and remotely receive information and data from
the City. Linda Hamilton, mathematics instructor at Marshall University, working with Chris Rogers of Tufts
University Center for Engineering Educational Outreach, has designed the LEGO 24-Hour City at RTI to be
operational for remote sensing. Many schools have remotely operated the City’s monorail, gates, traffic
counters, and vehicles.
Programs like the LEGO 24-Hour City at RTI use hands-on, real-life activities that build interest in engineering,
robotics, and remote sensing among young people. This interest will stay with the students throughout their
education, and lead them to careers in transportation and traffic fields. A SENSORS LEGO Robotics Workshop
was held at Tuft’s University on June 6-8, 2001. Marshall University, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA
Glenn, NASA Goddard and NASA Ames representatives planned their SENSORS site and programmed LEGO
robotics at the Tufts University SENSORS workshop.
SENSORS CITY
Science and Engineering NASA Site of
Remote Sensing
City Transportation
Nick J. Rahall, II
Appalachian Transportation
Institute
Marshall University
Linda Hamilton hamilton@marshall.edu
http://www.marshall.edu/LEGO
http://SENSORSCITY.marshall.edu