Miller Elementary
February 3, 2003
Internet LEGO connection and hands on LEGO transportation science
A motor is used as a dynamo to generate electricity.  It is saved in a capacitor.
Then the electricity is used to make the car move.
Carefully turn 10 times and see how far the car goes.
Then do 20 and then 30.

After the car stops the wheels will still move when there is less friction.

Look how far the car can go with 30 turns.
The group is making a table and graph of the data.


The group is making a table and graph of the data.

Make  electricity by turning the motor. The electricity is stored in the capacitor.
Make the gears mesh so the gear on the motor drives the gear on the wheels' axle.
Start way over there and the car goes where over here.
The LEGO City at Marshall University has a skater in February.
Send a program to SENSORSCITY and watch her go.


Write a RoboLab program or save one (it will end in .vi) from the example programs to use.
Then sign up for a time and submit the .vi as a mission to the City.
Watch everything move on the web camera.
Data from SENSORSCITY.
Miller LEGO Projects 2002-2003
Miller LEGO Projects 2001-2002

LEGO Links of Linda Hamilton

Webpages and pictures on http://netapps.marshall.edu/lego
Web camera on http://legocamera.marshall.edu
NASA site of Remote Sensing on http://SENSORSCITY.marshall.edu