On of the most exciting and interesting things we have done in class so far has been working with the lego robotics in the Intro to Lego Mindstorm activity. While it didn’t quite bring back the nostalgic feel of playing with legos as a little kid, this stuff is cool! The options in the computer program seem almost limitless, especially with a more advanced or expanded kit. This activity gave a great feel for what being a scientist is like. Using the robots almost almost like part of a lab or experiment, but we got to mess around with them more and have some fun exploring what we could do with the program

The actual assignment was challenging; this was the first time I had really worked with this stuff. Making the car was rather difficult at first but if we work with this stuff in the future I think I will have a much better understanding.

Probably the most interesting part of the assignment was that the NXT on the car was able to measure things during the trials, with great accuracy too. I would assume that the differences in data from what we recorded and what the nxt recorded were from our inaccuracies in measuring with the ruler, not that of the NXT

I am definitely happy we had this activity in class, and it may be very valuable to me if we use this stuff later on in class or maybe even in other classes down the road. This is the kind of toy I want to play with.