On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Zac Miller <zmil...@gsc.edu> wrote:
> It seems as if the Scribbler robots are fairly popular for teaching Python. > I also have to confess that even with just one robot my students are > blowing through large numbers of AA batteries. Has anyone tried any of the > more complex robots such as the SRV-1 or the robotic blimp from Surveyor? > http://www.surveyor.com/YARB.html > > I also teach middle school and college students in some Geographic > Information Systems (GIS) courses. I'd love to link the programming and GIS > students together eventually if I could get a python controlled blimp to > take aerial photos that could be georeferenced and used for GIS problems. > That strikes me as a really interesting idea. Hack-a-day has published some aerial camera mods... www.hackaday.com ... you might check them out. Vern > -J. Zachary Miller > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > Edu-sig@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > -- This time for sure! -Bullwinkle J. Moose ----------------------------- Vern Ceder, Director of Technology Canterbury School, 3210 Smith Road, Ft Wayne, IN 46804 vce...@canterburyschool.org; 260-436-0746; FAX: 260-436-5137 The Quick Python Book, 2nd Ed - http://bit.ly/bRsWDW
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