The blimp idea sounds so fantastic! I would love to hear about someone's experience with that.
I have a few big battery chargers (6 AAs) and a bunch of rechargeable batteries. The upfront cost is pretty big but it gets amortized quickly. Places like Walgreen's sometimes have ridiculously good sales on chargers + batteries. On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 7:55 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. > > -J. Zachary Miller > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > Edu-sig@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
