Some dates for the last five weeks.

You should be working on your major projects by now.

Some catch-up work has to be done on some topics set last term. There are some presentations required on some Lego NXT more advanced topics. It is proposed this will be done by different people presenting different parts of Lego extensions. This increases our class knowledge base. Some topics will be introduced in class.

The final test will be on 18 November. It will cover several topics including actuators, history and industrial robots. Most of your marks will come from project work.

Presentations of your major projects will be required. About 10 minutes with some surrounding material in a PowerPoint and a demonstration. Questions from the class will be included. These presentations can start as soon as you get finished though the main slot assigned is for 4, 5 November.

On 11, 12 November we have to present some simple lessons to a Youth Guarantee class. These will be the lessons you have already prepared and received credit for.

We have to share our NXT robots with other classes. This means you my have to spend some time setting up. For this reason much of the final 5 weeks will be given over to time to do practical work.

Fourth Term. Mr General cool but ...

There have been some unforeseen accuracy problems with the Mr General robot. It performs OK but movement and sensors remain a calibration challenge.

Because of the difficulties with the Mr General we are allowing a substitute for the major project associated with this robot. You can now have two projects involving the NXT robot. This gives us greater precision and allows us to make use of the Lego NXT's community of examples. If you really wish to deliver a Mr General major project, you may negotiate this with your lecturer. One of the NXT projects should be up to the difficulty of a colour sorter program. The other should involve some data logging. Please see your lecturer as soon as possible about your major projects.

The final date for the projects, in fact all work that has to be handed in, is the 19th Nov. There can be, without permission, no extensions after this.