There was a time when the world was more innocent and Lincoln Logs in elementary classrooms were a given, but now that teachers are looking to squash every ounce of fun between 8AM and 3PM (okay, so maybe we just had a rough experience or two),
LEGO's taking the back door in. The WeDo robotics kit is marketed toward elementary schools and the younger kids within them, with each package containing 158 blocks, gears, levers, etc., a USB hub for connecting to your Mac / PC,
OLPC XO or Intel Classmate, a motor, one motion sensor, one tilt sensor and a CD with a smattering of sure-to-be-riveting activities. Mum's the word on pricing for now, but considering your tax dollars will be paying for 'em, it's not like you'll really benefit from knowing.
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posted Jul 25th 2008 3:39PM
mv Geqxon -r /hell
I love LEGO's. Sometimes I bust out my giant bin of them and make something.
I love lamp!
I know, being single is tough work :)
You don't love LEGO's, but LEGO !
sicko
"LEGO gets into classrooms...."........LEGO's taking the back door in"
OLPC's===Suck
The software is horrible.
I dont care if it is for a good cause, lousy software means an unpleasant experience.
I remember I volunteered to write some software for the OLPC, but when I got my OLPC, it was so terribly slow that I couldnt even do anything with it. Not being able to change settings/update teh OS just isnt right.
you cant even do normal computer functions.
Lego LOGO for life!
Those were the days.
Fail.
Maybe instead of "low ranked", Engadget should have it say "fail" so that we wouldn't be subjected to the constant "first" post always followed by the obligatory "fail"
I don't know which one annoys me more.
If low ranked enough a big red stamp saying "Fail" should be put over their comment.
Really wish i was in elementary school right about now.
Lego is awesome, It really is a great toy, More kids these days should be building crap out of lego instead of playing lame wii games :D Lego broadens the mind... Mechanical / Logical thinking and such
Are those kids Black Panther party members?
6th Grade. Lego Technix was new(ish). We had these as a shop class project. This kind of thing is not news to me. But MAN, would I have loved Mindstorms as an assignment when I was 12.
LEGO had a similar product back in the 90's. Motors, sensors, etc... all controlled by a basic computer program.
(It was called "Lego Dacta Robolab")
wholly crap!! I just entered 'mv -r Geqxon /hell' and that nasty pervo comment immediately disappeared.
Am ah root?
More like fffdd1st!
Okay, that was a reply to some 2 hours late firster, but the firster got deleted, so now I'm just sitting here lookin dumb. Yeah.
There have been lego robotics things in classrooms for years. They've always been very popular too (at least in my experience).
Looks good anyway.
I am in favor of my tax dollars going to lego. prefer lego to bombs :P
LEGOs can make awesome educational tools. I do robotics workshops with junior high and high school students a few times a year using Lego Mindstorms kits and it's probably just as much fun for me as it is for the kids.
Oh man! Schools should get 6-9th graders interested in science and technology by doing classes where they build useful projects out of Lego's more advanced MindStorms robotics kits!
i think hispanic workers at lego were making fun of those white kids when they named the system. lol. "wedo robotics systems"
I must say, it's pretty chilly in hell!
And yes, I was indeed testing out Engadget's automated comment removal system. :-)
'm not root.
rm happiness; mkdir loneliness
echo cry
#well at least those poor impoverished suburbanwhites got their OLPCs.
I'd be willing to bet that CD full of riveting activities is Win32 only. Sorry, OLPC.