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...Parents should watch how children use their toys. Then they can encourage them to add more imaginative props, including such common household items as plastic strainers, cardboard tubes, fabric remnants and toys like Lego blocks and Play...
...front of an overflow crowd of about 500 people in Building 26 at MIT, the fourth annual RoboPuck tournament was revolutionary--it was the first time that teams were competing without being tethered to computers. The controlling microprocessor chips were located on the robots, which were constructed out of Lego kits, gears, motors and sensors...
...different strategies showed great conceptual depth. There was Shotgun, which propelled a Lego section at the puck as soon as it sensed it, managing to latch on to the prize while its other half found the nearest opponent and forechecked it into the boards. Talk about a goon...
Some robots chose to try and win by twirling aimlessly in circles, oblivious to the puck and everything around it, but seeming to have fun nevertheless. Lego-zilla was one of those that took this popular strategy...
Twenty-seven different student groups participated in the project, which was sponsored by Microsoft Corp., Motorola, Inc., Lego Systems, Inc., and Polaroid Corp...