Random piece of the day: 3585 - Wing 7 x 12 Right Master List of parts/numbers Official LEGO™ Color Chart Build MOCS and sets using My Parts Peeron™ Sidebars and RSS Feeds Sets with instructions: 3515 Unique parts listed: 14517 Sunday, January 01st 2017 0 instructions from 2013 are now visible. LEGO Education WeDo Construction Set The LEGO® Education WeDo 1.0 is an easy-to-use concept that introduces young students to robotics. Students will be able to build LEGO models featuring working motors and sensors; and explore a series of cross-curricular, theme-based activities while developing their skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics as well as language, literacy, and social studies. The brick set contains more than 150 LEGO® elements, including Motion and Tilt Sensors, a motor, and the LEGO USB Hub. The supporting curriculum pack contains activities that are divided into four themes – Amazing Mechanisms, Wild Animals, Play Soccer, and Adventure Stories - and provide helpful teacher notes, instructions for project based learning, a glossary, and building instructions.
The accompanying icon-based drag-and-drop software provides an intuitive programming environment. We’re here to support you before, during and after purchase. Online and telephone support is available for brick replacement, software-related queries or general technical questions. Please feel free to contact us with any questions. Call 866-349-LEGO (5346) or email support@legoeducation.us. Download software and curriculum for WeDo for free. Features a digital Getting Started Guide with building tips and programming examples. Activities are divided into four themes – Amazing Mechanisms, Wild Animals, Play Soccer, and Adventure Stories – and provide up to 24 hours of instruction and project-based learning. Teacher notes, glossary, and building instructions are also included. The maximum quantity of an item that can purchased in each transaction is 99.To inquire about purchasing more than 99 of one item, please call 800-362-4738.“The Trumps” Lego set is too close to the truth for comfort.
Luckily it’s a spoof. The Donald Trump-themed toy contains all members of the president-elect’s family in figurine form, who each come with their own Trump Tower. The bed from where Trump tweets late at night, $100 million in inherited dollars and his own private tanning salon are also included in the set. There’s a red telephone from where he can call Russian President Vladimir Putin ― and even a full nuclear arsenal. But Trump’s tax returns are not contained. YouTube channel “The School of Life” posted the parody commercial online Wednesday, and it’s already garnered more than 200,000 views. Check out the full spoof ad above. The Huffington Post’s Weird News email delivers unbelievably strange, yet absolutely true news once a week straight to your inbox.Don't fret, you didn't do anything wrong. It appears that the page you are looking for does not exist or has been moved elsewhere.If you keep ending up here, please head back to our homepage or try the search form below.
Home/Blogs/BLOG@CACM/A Lovelace, Babbage, and Analytical Engine LEGO Set.../Full Text LEGO has a crowdsourcing ideas site, where LEGO fans can pitch ideas for new LEGO sets. What a great way to let your audience help you conduct market research! Hugh McGuire was kind enough to send me a note about a Lovelace & Babbage set that Stewart Lamb Cromar has proposed. The set would include LEGO figurines for Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, LEGO pieces to build a representation of the Analytical Engine, punch cards, and related pieces. The various pieces would be styled with "a steampunk aesthetic" to capture the imaginations of young builders. The set would thus let young LEGO builders realize Babbage's vision by completing his Analytical Engine, and learn about the historical roles played by Babbage and Lovelace. (For those who have forgotten their early computing history: back in 1837, Charles Babbage designed a general-purpose (i.e., programmable with punch cards) mechanical computer he called the Analytical Engine.
Although a working Analytical Engine was never built, Ada [the Countess of] Lovelace understood the design's potential and corresponded with Babbage about it. She developed a detailed algorithm for using the Analytical Engine to compute Bernoulli numbers, for which she has been dubbed the first computer programmer. In honor of her contributions, the Ada programming language was named after her. Those interested in more details should read "Lovelace, Babbage, and the creation of the 1843 'notes'", by Fuegi and Francis.) For what it's worth, many stories from the "steampunk" genre take place in alternative universes where Babbage actually built an Analytical Engine powered by steam and Ada wrote programs for it. Such stories generally explore the question, "What if ... the power of computing was unleashed in the Victorian era?" Back in our universe, the dimensions of the LEGO Analytical Engine would be sufficient to accomodate a Raspberry Pi 2, if one wishes to put a computer inside.
That would be fun to see: a LEGO Analytical Engine driving an LCD display, mouse, and keyboard! One of the motivations for the set is to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Ada's birth (Dec. 10, 1815). The set would thus teach young LEGO builders some early computing history, and that women have been involved in computing since its origins. It would thus help to counter the popular misperception that only men belong in computer science. If an idea on the LEGO site receives 10,000 supporting votes, they will consider building the set. To support a project, you must register on their site, but registration only takes a minute, so if you want to raise awareness of computer science in our society, and help young boys and girls realize that computer science is not limited to males, I encourage you to support this proposal by clicking the blue button on the proposal page. » Create an ACM Web Account politics arts nation world economy science health education teachersThe RundownTV SCHEDULE
New Lego set to celebrate NASA’s women pioneers Five women pioneers of NASA are becoming Lego characters. Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton, mathematician Katherine Johnson, astronomer Nancy Grace Roman and astronauts Sally Ride, the first woman in space, and Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, are part of a new line Lego announced Tuesday. The idea came from Maia Weinstock, deputy editor of MIT News, as a part of a Lego Ideas competition. “Maia Weinstock’s Women of NASA project was a way for her to celebrate accomplished women in the STEM professions. In particular, those who’ve made a big impact through their work at NASA,” said Lego Ideas spokeswoman Lise Dydensborg in a video. Thrilled to finally share: @LegoNASAWomen has passed the @LEGOIdeas Review and will soon be a real LEGO set! — Maia Weinstock (@20tauri) February 28, 2017 The Lego line, which was created in conjunction with NASA, includes a display of the five famed women and several vignettes of NASA technology and history, including the codes and calculating instruments used in space missions and a mini space shuttle.
The official Twitter account for NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope tweeted that the toy set will be available at the end of this year or start of 2018. Final design and prices are still under consideration. Weinstock said the Lego’s new Women of NASA set “provides an educational building experience to help young ones and adults alike learn about the history of women in STEM.” NASA women have been in the spotlight in recent months thanks to the Oscar-nominated film “Hidden Figures.” During the Academy Awards, Johnson, who is portrayed in both the movie and the Lego set, appeared on stage with the stars of “Hidden Figures.” Actor Taraji P. Henson, who portrayed Johnson in the film, praised her as “a true NASA and American hero.” Lego came under fire in 2014 after seven-year-old Charlotte Benjamin criticized the company’s lack of professional female figures in a widely-shared letter. Lego responded with an all-female set that included a paleontologist, astronomer and chemist, and have now added to their female cast with the “Women in NASA” set.