What I'm doing with Lego Mindstorms at science

About two weeks ago, my science teacher told me that she had inherited some lego mindstorms equipment from our computer teacher who left last year. I told her I was very excited to start experimenting with it.

I already have a lego mindstorms kit at home but I had two major reasons to play with the stuff at school. First, I wanted to learn how it was possible to program the RCX with a mac because the science room only has outdated macs. Seccond, I wanted to teach at least one younger kid completely new to lego mindstorms and doesn't have one at home how to use it.

The Monday after I heard about it, I went to science to start playing around with the mindstorm software. It turned out that we had a program called RoboLab that works on the e mac. My friend Brian was there along with my best friend and a few other kids. I got started right away on the software. By the end of Tuesday, I had downloaded the firmware no the RCX.

So now, I'm still finishing up learning the software and everybody else just builds robots. My best friend is the only one who is really building a mindstorms robot. Everybody else either is just building technics or "robots" that only use one motor and can't support any real programming.

Update:

Just in the past two sessions of science, the 6th graders have been invading and getting in the way in several ways. Also, another friend of mine has been working on the Acrobot. I'm really glad ssomebody is working on a programmable robot.

Our science teacher has repeatedly told the people who are building one or no motor robots to build something useful but it hasn't worked. I kind of hope that she restricts the mindstorms more and doesn't let them even have access to the legos unless they are building something useful.