Contact:
B. Dean Pershall
(505) 346-7737
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Educational Benefits

Scaleable difficulty level:
  • Can be programmed on a basic level with very little programming knowledge
  • Advanced programmers can program high level functions and libraries
  • Lessons scale from very easy to very difficult
Ideal for many different levels:
  • Middle School
  • High School
  • College undergraduate
  • College graduate
Ideal for teaching a variety of technical areas including:
  • Programming
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Computer Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Physics (basic physical and kinematics experiments)
  • Math (examples of how math is used in Robotics and in data collection/ analysis)
Has a complete instruction manual
RoadRunner Lessons:
  • Introduction
  • Introduction to programming
  • Introduction to I/O
  • Basic circuit design and interfacing
    1. Basic circuit theory
    2. LED circuit
    3. Circuit with switches
    4. Circuit with potentiometers
    5. How to use IC chips
  • PWM
  • Motor outputs
  • Servo Motors
  • Analog vs. Digital
  • Analog Sensors
  • Digital Sensors
  • Environmental sensors
  • Kinematics experiments
  • Physics experiments
  • Object Avoidance experiment
  • Wall following experiment
  • Line following experiment