CED CED -- LTLT

LEGO Develops a new robotics platform - WeDo

LEGO Develops a new robotics platform - WeDo

CED CED -- LTLT

1. LEGO Robotics and the Robotics continuum

2. Development proces

3. Hands on with WeDo /Q&A session

1. LEGO Robotics and the Robotics continuum

2. Development proces

3. Hands on with WeDo /Q&A session

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Globalisation

Competitions

Hard Fun

CommunityDev cycle

Adults

Robotics Continuum

ChildrenWeDo

MINDSTORMS

Hobbyists

Scientists

StudentsTeachers

Education

Play

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The Past…

• DUPLO – System – Technic - ?

• MIT Media Lab

• Logo

• 1998 MINDSTORMS RoboticsInvention System (RIS)

• Codepilot, Scout, Micro Scout, Spybotics

• Novelty Project

• Internet community

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The Past…

• 2006 NXT Robotics Tool Kit

• MINDSTORMS CommunityPartners (MCP)

• 3rd party developers

• Community developers

• Retail

• Education

• Competitions

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Present time

• Nicolas Negroponte

• OLPC (Mac, Windows)

• Pico Cricket, Scratch

• Mitchel Retshnik

• Robotics Continuum:

WeDoNXTLabView (NXT Toolkit)

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LEGO Robotics Business is growing …LEGO still scratching the surface…

LEGO ROBOTICS growth 2002-2007

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RETAIL

EDU

Index

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The Future…

Harvard Business Review article, July 2007

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The power of imagination

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core

LEGO– Concept, manufactoring, business

National Instruments – Software development

Titoonic - Artwork

Eicom - Translations

RelQ – Quality Assurance

Community– Keeping it alive and kicking

How is it done?

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1. LEGO Specifies

2. Titoonic developgraphics

3. Eicom translates

4. National Instruments develops builds

5. RelQ tests

…and a new day begins

Development process

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Programming: LabVIEW

Source control: Perforce

Translations: Trados

Artwork: Photoshop, Maya

Bug database: OnTime

Development tools

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The power of imagination

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Low Floor Easy to get started, simple but not trivial

Wide Walls Useful in many types of projects

Tinkerable Easy to experiment, incrementally build things up

Convivial Friendly, playful, joyful

WeDo Design philosophy

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Low Floor Easy to get started, simple but not trivial

Wide Walls Useful in many types of projects

Tinkerable Easy to experiment, incrementally build things up

Convivial Friendly, playful, joyful

Simplicity “If we think we need it, wedon’t”

Consistancy

Forgiving “It just works”

WeDo Design philosophy

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Let’s have some fun ☺☺☺☺

•Play

•Learning

•Connect – Construct – Contemplate - Continue

•Hard Fun

•Hands on, Minds on

•WeDo

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“It's an education project,not a laptop project”

— Nicholas Negroponte

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