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Pythagorean Approximations for LEGO: Merging Educational Robot Construction with Programming and Data Analysis

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Robotics in Education (RiE 2017)

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This paper can be used in two ways. It can provide reference information for incorporating diagonal elements (for bracing or gear meshing) in educational robots built from standard LEGO® kits. Alternatively, it can be used as the basis for an assignment for high school or college students to recreate this information; in the process, students will exercise skills in both computer programming and data analysis. Using the paper in the second way can be an excellent integrative experience to add to an existing course; for example, the Exploring Computer Science high school curriculum concludes with the units “Introduction to Programming”, “Computing and Data Analysis”, and “Robotics”.

An abbreviated preliminary version of this paper appeared as [6].

R.I. Greenberg—Supported in part by National Science Foundation grants CNS-1542971 and CNS-1543217.

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  1. Loyola University, Chicago, IL, 60626, USA

    Ronald I. Greenberg

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  1. Practical Robotics Institute Austria (PRIA), Vienna, Austria

    Wilfried Lepuschitz

  2. Practical Robotics Institute Austria (PRIA), Vienna, Austria

    Munir Merdan

  3. Practical Robotics Institute Austria (PRIA), Vienna, Austria

    Gottfried Koppensteiner

  4. Slovak University of Technology (STU), Bratislava, Slovakia

    Richard Balogh

  5. Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

    David Obdržálek

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Greenberg, R.I. (2018). Pythagorean Approximations for LEGO: Merging Educational Robot Construction with Programming and Data Analysis. In: Lepuschitz, W., Merdan, M., Koppensteiner, G., Balogh, R., Obdržálek, D. (eds) Robotics in Education. RiE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 630. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62875-2_6

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