Robotics project

Keith Tanner wrote: I was actually going to make a joke about doing a Logo turtle in real life, then I did a bit of reading and discovered that that's pretty much where it came from - and that it almost got used as the language for the Lego stuff. Alas, the Lego Logo was not to be.

Truth.

Oh man. This is cool.

Control Sphero with touchdevelop.

http://youtu.be/_KlAFeUl_R0

By the way, a Nokia Lumia 520 Go phone occasionally goes on sale for less than $40, works well with TouchDevelop, and has a kids mode, allowing it to be locked down to appropriate apps.

So, I didn't take any of the wise advice from this thread. As cool as the Legos are, I went a different direction. Stacksocial ran a promo on an arduino board based robot kit:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00W6Y0VTS/ref=s9_psimh_gw_d32_g21_i2?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=mobile-1&pf_rd_r=0S0W43X29HZ4D2TGTETF&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=2068141862&pf_rd_i=mobile

I got it for $75. So a bargain. My son loves to build, I was hopeful that the build would go well. Imagine my surprise when he exceeded my expectations! We built it tonight, took about 2 hours. Here's the pics...

http://imgur.com/a/IehH7

Parenting. You're doing it right!

(Finally on a computer, so I can actually embed the images now)