Overview
The K’NEX Robotics software is a fully featured Control program. Designed for students 10+,
it offers a simple yet powerful programming language that allows students to program and
control K’NEX models and devices using the K’NEX Robotics interface.
The language is based on worldwide standard flowcharting principals. Flowcharts offer a
high level visual development environment, being both easy to understand and powerful;
students can quickly achieve dramatic, positive and valid results.
In addition to the standard flowchart language, the software offers a side-by-side view of the
program as a traditional textually described program. This high level textual representation
uses everyday language and avoids the risk of errors caused by complex syntax and typing
entry errors. Offering both graphical and language views gives the student the best of both
worlds!
Students are used to highly animated, highly visual stimuli (video games, TV, etc.).
We need to engage the students by matching their expectations within an educational
context:
• to a control project that helps the student to understand a problem.
• that the student can identify with, be it from firsthand experience or via a subject
area they are interested in.
The K’NEX Robotics set offers familiar and exciting models to engage the students.
The Software
The K’NEX Robotics software can be downloaded from www.knex.com/robotics and is
designed to be installed on a single PC or a network of PCs.
Example control programs
The example control programs required to control 6 of the models in the K’NEX Robotics
set are supplied at www.knex.com/robotics. They are not copied to the PC when the
software is installed. If you wish to access these files you need to download them from
www.knex.com/robotics.
Operating Modes
Simulation –
The K’NEX Robotics software can run a student’s program without being
connected to the K’NEX Robotics Interface.
Real-time –
The K’NEX Robotics software can control the K’NEX Robotics
interface directly. Click on the ‘Connect’ icon for communication to be
established.
Remote –
The K’NEX Robotics interfaces allows a control program to be downloaded
from the software into the interface to be run disconnected from the computer.
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