A study of the effect that material choice gives to robotics programming

- At seminar for art students -

Abstract

Art students make their works by a personal computer today. In spite of it, it is not general for them to build a computer program. But it’s necessary for them to have knowledge of programming to control interactive art works. So, I have a seminar for programming of Lego Mindstorms at Faculty of Art and Design, University of Toyama. "Lego Mindstorms education" is a teaching material for robotics with an intelligent block including microprocessor and its name is "NXT". Each student of the exercise must make one works. NXT-G Language, which is included in the teaching material, is used as a programming language. As a result, there was more variety of works made with paper than the works were not made with it. Therefore, because of easy processing of paper, it can be useful for robotics beginner, especially programming, that to use paper as a material.