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From: fredm@media.mit.edu (Fred G Martin)
Subject: what are you doing with your Mini Board/6.270 Board?
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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 18:08:31 GMT
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Greetings to all,

As some of you may already know, a big part of the motivation for
creating the 6.270 board and the Mini Board was to facilitate
educational experiments like the MIT LEGO Robot Design Competition.
Over the past year or so, many of you have been in touch with me (and
others on this list), describing the creative ways you have used the
technology for various purposes---robotics research, different
educational environments (at various levels), and hobbyist work.

I would now like to ask all of you if you might formalize this
information by replying to a short survey I have enclosed.  I know,
"ugh, not a survey," but it is both short and open-ended and I would
grealy appreciate even just a few sentences of reply.  

The survey will be used to report on the work you all are doing in
the Conclusions/Future Directions portion of my Ph.D. thesis (which
will be completed shortly).  Hearing from you all is very important to
me, so let me appeal to your sense of community responsibility here:
we've been generous in making our technology available; please take
the time to send a reply to me now.

Thanks in advance, everyone.  If people are interested in getting a
summary of the responses, please note this on your reply to me.

	-Fred

---Mini Board/6.270 Board usage survey---------------------------------

Please e-mail replies to fredm@media.mit.edu.  If you are pressed for
time, just fill out the header and an answer to the first question.
Thank you in advance for your time.


Name:
Position (professor, researcher, student, etc.):
Institution:

Your e-mail address:


1.  How would you categorize your work with the Mini Board/6.270
Board?

Education (e.g., new ways to teach robotics or other subjects)
Research (e.g., robotics research using the MB/6270 board)
Business/Industrial (e.g., using boards for control applications in industry)
Hobby/Personal (e.g., playing with robotics at home)
Other (please specify)

Please choose from one of these categories, or specify your own if
none seem to reply, and write a few sentences describing the project
(or longer if you would like).

If you are using the MB/6.270 technology for more than one distinct
project, please give an additional reply for each project.



2.  Which board are you using (6.270 board, Mini Board, or both)?


3.  How did you learn about the boards?


4.  Have you used technology similar to the MB/6270 board before?


5.  What features or characteristics of the 6.270/Mini Board
technology/materials make it appropriate for the uses for which you
are currently employing it?  Please be specific as possible.


6.  What plans do you have for your Mini Board/6.270 Board projects in
the upcoming few years?


7.  If you have any other comments or thoughts you would like to add,
please do so.


8.  Please note if you would like me to keep your comments anonymous
in any writing or reports.


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E-mail surveys to fredm@media.mit.edu.  Please put the words "survey
reply" in the Subject: line.  Thank you very much for your time.

	-Fred

Fred Martin | fredm@media.mit.edu | (617) 253-5108 | 20 Ames St. Rm. E15-320
Epistemology and Learning Group, MIT Media Lab     | Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
