Puppy consists of a set of building instructions that can be followed online to build a puppy using the NXT Lego Robot kits. When puppy is built the students can then program their dog to come, bark, and respond to a button press on the "leash". These instructions were provided by people at the University of Victoria who ran an outreach activity using this set up. I take no credit whatsoever for these instructions, although I have followed them a number of times :-)
- the overview provided by the folks at UVic who designed this project (word document)
- puppy_come.rbt: the NXT program for making the puppy come on command
- puppy.rbt: another NXT program for your puppy
- dogbark.wav and dogbark.rso, so that you can make your puppy bark (you need the rso file to be imported in to the NXT software, I believe).
- you might want to use Enchanting to program your puppy (it's a lot like Scratch). Enchanting can be downloaded from this link.
- and here is an Enchanting Card for programming your puppy.