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  1. Cross country adventure

    Cross country adventure
    • August 22, 2013
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    Can you design and program a robot that can travel from one state to another across a large floor map of the USA (or a similar map of another part of the world)? Can you estimate the time required to travel between specific states? Resources Cross Country Adventure lesson plan...

    Challenge idea

    dead reckoning, distance, estimation, geography, geometry, measurement, NXT, programming, space

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  2. Drive in a square

    Drive in a square
    • August 12, 2013
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    The goal of this activity is to make a robot car drive in a square path. Hint: Rotation sensors are great for controlling the angle of a car’s turn. Resources Square lesson plan – NXT-G (PDF) Square lesson plan – RCX + ROBOLAB (PDF)

    Lesson plan NXT-G ROBOLAB

    code example, dead reckoning, navigation, NXT, RCX, Rotation Sensor

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