The Brain by PCS along with Minds-i building system is headed to NASA for product evaluation!
The Brain is the New Robotic Controller by PCS. It aims to inspire and motivate students to learn scientific principles through simple, sophisticated robotics. The Brain integrates seamlessly into the PCS Robotics Labs and Challenges, and adds functionality to your [...]

For all of you LEGO enthusiasts, try your hand at building and animating your designs in the computer. Download the free animation software (LD4DStudio) at http://www.ld4dstudio.nl/ You’ll be able to build your LEGO model with the LDraw virtual part library and make simple animations relativity easy.

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Hands-on engineering and robotic projects don’t always have to be built by hand. Students can use computers with specific software to build their projects virtually.
There are a lot of freely available programs on the internet. We have found that MLCad and POV-Ray work the best for students. We animated our latest [...]

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By introducing robotics to children at a young age, we will have better prepared them to embrace math, science, and engineering when those subjects are presented to them in school. You may need to modify the projects to include the younger learner, as illustrated in the example below.
In the video, Sandon [...]

Robots are getting better at finding their way around unknown areas, and making their own maps as they explore. But robots lost in urban areas don’t need to rely on their own faculties to get from place to place, German roboticists have shown.
Their mobile robot simply rolls up to any humans nearby and asks for [...]

Are you using Podcasting, Robotics, or other creative PCS products in your classroom?
Up to $27,000 to K-12 teachers ING Unsung Heroes Program
The ING Unsung Heroes Program is searching for education professionals who are using creative and unique educational programs or would like to use those types of programs to help students reach new heights.  Each [...]

This is our official announcement of the conclusion of the PCS BRICKLab Challenge in conjunction with the Idaho SySTEMic Solution.  The BRICKLab Challenge is a whole-class activity in which the students respond to a specific challenge that must be completed within a certain time frame.  In this case, students had two weeks to develop their [...]

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Bob Floyd (Boise, ID) built this great forklift robot using fischertechnik building elements, The Brain robotic controller, and the Cortex programming software.

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Many robotics challenges (like RoboCup) require participants to build soccer playing robots. Why not take it to the next level and create a robotic soccer goal as well?
Using fischertechnik elements, The Brain by PCS, and The Cortex programming environment, this Soccer Goal Robot lights up and makes noise when a ball [...]

Frontier Academy (Colorado) wins at RoboRave using fischertechnik and The Brain with The Cortex software by PCS. Annie Evans from Frontier Academy commented on the experience, “The kids were thrilled to go on a trip and compete against so many schools.  Our high school team placed second and our middle school team placed third! There [...]