Lego Mindstorms

Charles P. Lazarus founded the Children’s Supermarket which developed into Toys R Us in 1948. The company was very successful for many years until competitors started to advance, diminishing the company’s revenue. As the company matured the business began making wrong decisions placing the company in further debt. Toys R Us has recently filed for bankruptcy protection to regain the company's momentum after years of large outstanding debt. The most important issue that led Toys R Us Canada to…

program a robot using LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3. By the end of the week, the program had taught me how to input and output functions to the robot using very intuitive software. I felt that my parents’ investment was an eye-opening educational experience. My mother often would say to me and my brother, “Tell me what you want to pursue in life and I will find the tool to help you get there”. All I had to do was my part, and she has never failed me. Surprisingly, LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3 had followed me…

In the EV3 Robotics Project 1, the very first task was forming a team and obtaining a Mindstorm kit. Thanks to my kind team mate, I could develop a good relationship among my team even though my first language is not English. The next task given to my team was to build a Lego robot. The assembling instruction was so simple and easy to understand that we could work together and made it without any errors. To enhance work efficiency, our team decided to facilitate to share an assembling work,…

According to Merriam Webster Dictionary (1828), learning is defined as the attainment of knowledge or skills through study, experience, or being taught. Generally, people define learning as what we learn as a result of things that happen to us. For example, we learned not to tell lies because we can get in trouble, we learned that thunder comes after lightning, and we learned to cook from watching the steps demonstrated to us. Proof that we have actually learned these things come from acquired…

The North Atlantic Ocean is a cold, inhospitable, and often ice-covered place. In spite of these harsh conditions, life continues to thrive in the cold, dark depths. The vast majority of these winter-resident species owe their success to various forms of anti-freeze proteins. Within Northern Atlantic resident species, there are six classes of Anti-Freeze Proteins (AFPs), generally categorized by molecular size, structure and effectiveness. AFPs are a remarkable exhibition of convergent evolution…