[Edu-sig] Robots for Teaching Python

[Helene Martin]

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 <zmiller at 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
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