Ph.D., University of Victoria
address
Jacqueline E. Rice, Associate Professor
Dept. of Math and Computer Science
University of Lethbridge
4401 University Drive
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada T1K 3M4
tel: 403.329.2783 fax: 403.317.2882

email
j.rice @ uleth.ca








last updated Nov. 2012

instructor resources for Puppy

Puppy consists of a set of building instructions that can be followed online to build a puppy using the NXT Lego Robot kits. When puppy is built the students can then program their dog to come, bark, and respond to a button press on the "leash". These instructions were provided by people at the University of Victoria who ran an outreach activity using this set up. I take no credit whatsoever for these instructions, although I have followed them a number of times :-)

- the overview provided by the folks at UVic (word document)

- puppy_come.rbt: the NXT program for making the puppy come on command

- puppy.rbt: another NXT program for your puppy

- dogbark.wav and dogbark.rso, so that you can make your puppy bark (you need the rso file to be imported in to the NXT software, I believe).

- the enchanting card for puppy (you'll need Enchanting installed on your computer if you want to program your robot using this instead of Lego's Labview software).

- building instructions