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Alfred Thompson's blog about teaching computer science at the K-12 level. Alfred was a high school computer science teacher for 8 years. He has also taught grades K-8 as a computer specialist. He has written several textbooks and project books for teaching Visual Basic in high school and middle school. Alfred is the K-12 Computer Science Academic Relations Manager for Microsoft and is trying to be the Microsoft Education Blogger.

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New Release of Microsoft Robotics Studio

I read an announcement that the August CTP (Community Technical Preview) of the Microsoft Robotics Studio software was released for (free) download. You can get the bits here. There are a bunch of new features which you can read about in detail here. These additions include:

  • New Simulation Features
  • New Robot Services (list below copied from the update website.

We've update our support for the LEGO Mindstorms NXT services to include support for sensors and regulated motor control.

We've also added services to support several new robots including:

  • Kondo KHR-1
  • LynxMotion Lynx-6 Robotic Arm
  • Parallax BOEBot BASIC Stamp robot
  • RobotConnection Traxster (using the Serializer board)

Also there are new services to support:

  • GPS devices
  • Inverse kinematics
  • Video capture (using IEEE-1394/Firewire and USB cameras)
  • Text-to-speech (requires the Microsoft Speech SDK)

Also there are now readme files to document the joystick, gamepad, and mouse services.

  • New Authoring Support
  • New Tutorials – including tutorials for Iron Python and Visual Basic .NET
  • New licensing agreement to make it easier for you to create and share your own derivative software

Check it out. Also there are some good support resources available at an active discussion community. Even if you don’t use robotics in a course this is a resource to show to students who are really interested in robots.

Published Monday, August 07, 2006 2:46 AM by Alfred Thompson

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# Microsoft Robotics Studio August 2006 CTP @ Monday, August 07, 2006 6:17 AM

Robotics Studioに新しいCTPが登場した。 新しいロボット、コンド...

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