This great project was featured in the latest Parallax Newsletter. Be sure to watch both videos - the one introducing Dr. Nickols in hyperlinked below as the "must-see video."
The popular BASIC Stamp 2 module continues to be used in college mechatronics and high school programming courses. Educational customers Frank Nickols and Julian Potter of the Bristol Robotics Laboratory in the United Kingdom created a robot which calculates the trajectory of a ping pong ball to repeatedly catapult it into a basket. This project covers many learning objectives of an engineering class: mechanical systems and design, manufacturing with jigs, mathematical modeling and CAD, mechanical structures, electronic controls, real-time programming, robotics, and machine learning.
Dr. Nickols has been teaching with Parallax microcontrollers for over 20 years at universities in the United Kingdom, Singapore, China, Brunei, and Hong Kong. This must-see video introduces Dr. Nickols teaching approach which combines practical engineering, business, and communication.
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