Re: [CODE4LIB] Robotics Teaching Resources

2015-12-03 Thread Shaun D. Ellis
Hi Matthew, I would recommend Johnny-Five: http://johnny-five.io/ They have some good books on it too referenced from the site. I built a simple robot with this, an arduino, and a pee-wee rover kit. Here it is racing another bot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-bw9VTOnBs Best of luck, Shaun

Re: [CODE4LIB] Robotics Teaching Resources

2015-12-03 Thread Katherine Deibel
I don't have any direct recommendations, but you might want to check our SIGCSE, it's the ACM's special interest group in computer science education. Their main conference, SIGCSE, often showcases teaching materials, projects, efforts, etc. like that. http://sigcse.org/ Kate Deibel, PhD | Web

[CODE4LIB] Robotics Teaching Resources

2015-12-03 Thread Matthew Kopel
Hello All, I'm on the hunt for open resources for teaching robotics, setting up robotics-related library programming, guides for what to buy, what the best resources are, what the most inexpensive resources are, and anything else that the code4lib hive mind thinks might be useful! Many Thanks, M