Truly affordable educational robotics From US$33 per robot, educational robotics that works with LEGO bricks is now at a price your school can afford! Now you can program Edison in PythonEdPack1 FREE International Express Shipping via DHL AffordableLess than US$50 each and just US$33 each for a full class setWorks with LEGO bricksModular and easily expandable using LEGO bricksProgrammableFree programming software for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and AndroidClassroom ready10 free robotics lesson plans with student worksheets and activity sheetsEasy to useSix pre-programmed robot activities set by barcodesBuilt to lastTough enough to be driven over by a car – See our video for proof!Edison comes with all of these free online resources…10 robotics lesson plansIntegrate Edison into your classroom with ease with our fully illustrated set of 10 free robotics lesson plans. The complete document is 66 pages and includes 36 student Worksheets, 5 Activity sheets, a student achievement chart and a student award certificate.
Your EdVenture into Robotics - You're a ControllerIn EdBook1 learn about robotics with Edison, no programming required! Edison can read special barcodes in the book that activate pre-programmed features, such as line following, obstacle avoidance, sumo wrestling and much more. In total seven fun and educational robot activities across 16 pages.Robot activity matAn A1 size (23in x 33in) mat for robot activities such as line following and bounce in borders. The EdMat has six barcodes that activate pre-installed programs such as follow torch, line tracking and sumo wrestle. The EdMat can be downloaded for free and printed at your local print shop.Your EdVenture into Robotics - You're a ProgrammerIn EdBook2 learn about robot programming by programming Edison yourself! Learn how to write your own robot programs using EdWare’s easy to use drag and drop graphical robot programming software. In total 10 fun and educational robot activities across 27 pages.Graphical robot programming softwareMake robot programming fun and easy to learn with drag and drop graphical icons.
EdWare is FREE to use and is for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS (iPad) and Android tablets. Your EdVenture into Robotics - You're a BuilderIn EdBook3 learn about adding pieces made by LEGO to your Edison robot. Follow the step by step guide to combine two Edison robots with LEGO pieces from the LEGO ‘Compact Tracked Loader’ (set 42032) to create more complex robots, such as a remote control robot digger (EdDigger) and a printer (EdPrinter).“I have to say, they are the perfect solution for me. I teach pre-service teachers. In our footprint, schools are low on funding, and low on expertise. I have funded myself, and played with a variety of robots for lower primary, including some quite expensive models. Without a doubt Edison is most user-friendly, versatile and of course cost-effective” - Wendy Fasso, Central Queensland University, Australia“I've been running camps here in Ireland using Edison robots and the children are delighted with the robots and are really enjoying playing with them.
They are amazed with what the robots can do and love designing their own programs. It's great to see how imaginative they are.” - Sinéad Diggin, Ireland “I have been so thrilled watching my students come up with creative ways to work with the two Edisons we have. They are in the process of creating a video to share with our parent community to convince them this is a great way to get students engaged in this type of technology.” - Yolanda Gonzales, Boise school District, USA“In the classrooms, the robots are gradually filtering through all classes. All teachers have been hugely impressed by the enjoyment the students experience as well as the higher order thinking skills that are used to solve challenges that students encounter with the Edison robots.”- Julia Creasy, Coolbinia Primary School, Australia“I am very impressed with the Edison and how they have engaged the students in my class.”- Andrew P., Primary Teacher, Australia Edison NewsRead About the Latest News with Edison
EdPy is a free online app for programming Edison in the Python programming language. Text based programming for Edison has been one of the most frequently requested... Meet Edison V2.0We’ve been hard a work over the last year designing an even better Edison robot. Edison has received some exciting upgrades since the very first version shipped in December 2014. Let’s take a look at them. Precision Driving Edison V2.0...Edison Now Back in StockHappy Chinese New Year everyone! It’s the year of the monkey, but we’re wondering when the year of the robot will be?We are nearing the end of ‘early’ February and Edison is now back in stock! We had hoped to be shipping earlier, but we hadn’t anticipated the Chinese...The page was not foundLego sets come in all different sizes with different numbers of Lego pieces. Of course bigger sets cost more, but is there a linear relationship between set size and cost? Let’s take a look. Oh, and yes – I did look at this before, but that was a long time ago.
It’s time to revisit the data. It’s not too difficult to find data for Lego prices and number of pieces. If you just look on the Lego online store. There you can find both the price and the number of pieces for each set. You can even sort them by “themes” – like “Star Wars” or “friends” Even though it’s easy to get, I only collected price data for a subset of the themes (mostly because I am lazy). If I put all of this data together, I can get a plot of the set price vs. number of pieces in set. Here is what that looks like. Let’s look at the linear function that fits this data. The slope of this line is 0.104 US Dollars per Lego piece. There is your answer. On average, one Lego piece costs 10.4 cents. Also, I think it’s nice to notice that this data is fairly linear.What about the y-intercept for this fitting function? The value from the fit is 7.34 USD. That means that for this function, if you had a Lego set with zero pieces in it, it would still cost $7.34 – you know, for the box and instructions and stuff.
Yes, I know that there are Lego sets cheaper than $7.34 – this is just the y-intercept for the fitting function. Now let me point out the three outliers in this plot. Notice that all of these (one from Duplo and two from the City theme) are train sets. Of course train sets are going to be more expensive than a set with the same number of pieces (but not a train) because of the electric motors and stuff. If you are looking for a “good deal”, might I suggest the Trevi Fountain (21020). This set has 731 pieces for just $49.99. According to the fitting function, a set with this many pieces should cost about 83 dollars. Suppose I break all the data into the different themes. If I fit a linear function to each of the different themes, I can get both the price per piece of Lego and the price of a zero piece set. Here are the brick prices for some of the Lego themes. The error bars are the uncertainties in the fit parameters. If you know what a Duplo block is, you probably aren’t surprised that they are the most expensive (63 cents per brick).
These are bricks created for smaller kids. They are all large so that you can’t swallow them. It just makes since that they would cost more. The other expensive bricks are the City sets. But this is deceiving due to the high set prices of the train kits. I suspect if you removed these train sets from the plot, it would be a more normal price. What about the base cost? This is the y-intercept of the linear fit. Here you will notice that the City theme has a negative base cost. This means that if there were no pieces (on average) in a City set, Lego would pay YOU money. But why is this negative? It’s because of the high price of the train sets. They increase the slope of the linear fit but also push the y-intercept into negative values. The real bargains are the Architecture themed sets. These have a base cost of only 70.7 cents where as the Marvel themed sets have a base cost of 3.61 USD. I’ve probably already answered some of these questions in the past, but it would still be fun as a homework assignment.