Sat 22 Oct ’16, 9:00am – 5:30pm Sun 23 Oct ’16, 9:00am – 5:30pm Mon 24 Oct ’16, 9:00am – 5:30pm 65-67 Central Park Dr, Henderson Show map 2016 Auckland Brick Show Buy your tickets before October 22nd and go in the draw to win a fantastic LEGO® Prize Package worth $400!!Please note the Session Times are Session Start Times, you can stay as long as you like!!The Auckland Brick Show features LEGO® models and displays by members of the Auckland LEGO® User Group, as well as guests from around New Zealand.This year we are in an exciting new venue at the Trusts Arena, with over 3000 square metres of LEGO® on display!! At the show you can see: - A huge city display featuring trains, monorails, subways, amusement park, - Star Wars , Classic Space and huge MOC ( My Own Creation ) spaceships and moonbases!! - Technic vehicles of every type and size, with working functions! - Huge “History of LEGO®” display featuring some of the very first LEGO® sets from the 1960’s!
- A Great Ball Contraption ( LEGO® Rube Goldberg machine ) to fascinate people of all ages!! LEGO® Mindstorms Robots and remote controlled cars to drive! - Batman & Superheroes collections! - LEGO® Friends and Elves displays! - A Giant Auckland Skytower model and Eden Park All Blacks game made by Australian LEGO® certified professional Ryan McNaught ( AKA The Brickman )! - A huge LEGO® model of the Whakamaru dam and power station! - Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Hobbit displays!Amazing original LEGO® creations of all types including castles, fantasy scenes and spaceships!! LEGO® model railroad and train displays featuring trains from the first battery types of the 1960’s to the latest Power Functions remote control models!A LEGO® Playbrick area where the kids (and adults..) can put their creativity to the test.A massive range of LEGO® for sale by TOYCO.This event is not affiliated with The LEGO Group. LEGO and the LEGO logo are trademarks of The LEGO Group.
Lights, sound and action Left and right red LED lights – Flash the LED lights to add a cool look Buzzer – Gives sound feedback and can play musical notes Two motors with encoders – Drive Edison or use the LEGO cross axles to power a new invention Infrared receiver – Remote control from a standard TV/DVD remote control Infrared LEDs – Transmit messages and control commands to another Edison robot Infrared receiver – Receive messages and control commands from another Edison robot Multifunction line tracking sensor Edison’s line tracking sensor has three functions: Detect lines – Contrast between black and white surfaces Read barcodes that activate pre-programmed functions Receive the programming signal from EdWare via the EdComm cable Edison has been designed as a modular robotics system that is easily expandable using LEGO bricks. Edison has LEGO compatible studs across the top, bottom and sides. The wheels can be removed and LEGO cross axles can be inserted to create new inventions.
Two or more Edisons can be connected together. For example, to create a LEGO brick digger, where the bottom Edison becomes the wheel driving mechanism and the top Edison controls the bucket tipper. New inventions are only limited by your student’s imagination! LEGO is a registered trademark of The LEGO Group. Getting your class started with the educational robotics is easy with these 10 FREE Educational 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. The worksheets and activity sheets allow students to study independently and learn at their own pace. Lesson 1: Get familiar and set up Lesson 2: Robot movement – Driving Lesson 3: Robot movement – Turning Lesson 4: Maze challenge and Mexican wave Lesson 5: Design brief 1 – My Program Lesson 6: Clap sensing Lesson 7: Detect obstacles Lesson 8: Line sensing and tracking
Lesson 9: Respond to light Lesson 10: Design brief 2 – My Program Learn more about our robotics lesson plans or download the 10 Robotics Lesson Plans pdf document. Edison can be programmed from a growing number of FREE software applications. EdWare is graphical programming software that makes teaching educational robotics a breeze! Using drag and drop graphical icons robot programming is easy to learn and great fun! EdWare is available for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS (iPad) and Android. EdWare is FREE to download or use online. This easy to use drag and drop graphical programming language uses CONTROL, READ, DATA and FLOW instructions that are linked together in a logical flowchart style. Advanced programming is just a mouse click away – up to 5,000 command icons can be used in a single program (Edison V2.0). Sophisticated programs using 16-bit maths and event interrupts can also control one Edison, or several Edisons operating together. Programs are downloaded using the supplied EdComm cable.
The EdComm cable connects to the headphone jack of your computer or tablet and uses a stream of pulse encoded audio to program Edison. . EdWare for the Edison robot is FREE to download and use. EdPy makes text-based programming fun, as students can see their code come to life in their Edison robot. Python is easy to learn, has high readability and is very popular. The popularity of Python can’t be underestimated. With Python, students are learning a real life programming language, and they can apply what they learn as part of a professional career. The EdPy programming environment has a range of features that help students to learn texted-based programming. EdPy is a FREE web and Chrome app (coming soon). EdBlocks makes programming super easy for younger students with drag and drop graphical icons that click into place. Using a single programming block a student can program Edison to follow a line, drive for a set time or send a message to another Edison.
EdBlocks is based on a convergence of Scratch and Blockly by MIT and Google. The release of EdBlocks is expected before the end of 2016 and will be a FREE web and Chrome app. Android and iPad versions will follow in early 2017. Each Edison comes with an EdComm cable for downloading programs into Edison. The EdComm cable is simple to set up as it doesn’t require any driver software to be installed and is compatible with any device that has a headphone jack. This allows Edison to be programmed from devices that don’t have USB ports, such as iPads. There are three FREE to download EdBooks that introduce educational robotics. Each EdBook is fully illustrated and takes students through the three main concepts of controlling, programming and building robots. In addition, an A1 size educational robotics activity mat is free to download. Educational robotics with Edison, and 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.