Visits LEGO City on the Web
for Graphing
April 7, 2006
There is a model of Mars back of
the LEGO
City.
There is a Mars rover of LEGO parts that has a camera on it that we drove around from the classroom computer.
We can see what the rover camera sees and see the room with another camera.
It was math class.
So we talked about how information that the real rovers on Mars get are numbers
and that we can "see" the graphs of the numbers although we can not really walk around on Mars.
Then we sent programs to SENSORSCITY.
The first time we could see by the white line that the train was not
moving.
Each time the green line on the graph was down shows when the little
car goes in front of the light sensor.
The red line is the count of the monorail going to the station touch
sensor.
The mono rail went back and forth more times the second run.
The third time the kids excitedly said "You did it!"
See!
Great thinking.
Here is what the City and Mars look like at Marshall University.