Today's Science Saturday was about robots and it drew a very large crowd!!
Dr Emmons gave instructions about basic robot/computer programming and helped the kids (& adults!) understand that you have to program every little detail. They played with Lego Mindstorm Robots and were able to program the computer& download it to the robot and then watch their robot do what they had told it to do. It was fun but crazy & loud with so many people participating. It's nice to have a bigger crowd but it did take away from the time that each kid was able to spend playing with the actual robots.
A weird thing happened to me at Science Saturday...I pulled my camera out to take photos and got the error message that I did not have a memory card in the camera. I figured I had just neglected to take it out of my computer and put it back into the camera so I fished in my camera bag for another memory card. When I went to insert the memory card, lo and behold, I had not forgotten to replace the original memory card but, for some reason, my camera was not reading it. So, I played around with it for a while and it seems that there is something wrong with the memory card slot...the card does not "click" into the slot I took a few Science Saturday photos with my cell phone but they're, obviously, not as good.
When we got home, I tried to figure out a way to wedge cardstock or cardboard on top of the card but then couldn't close the cover and I didn't want to completely break it. I found a Canon forum on-line and posted my problem...hope I get an answer soon! It doesn't seem like it should be that hard to fix, as it's not a "technical" problem.
Bill suggested we all go to the Hooper Pool this afternoon so I decided to not stress about the camera. It was nice to relax at the pool and we had a nice visit with the Morins.
I do hope I get an answer soon from the forum about my camera but, I'm also planning to take it to a repair shop in Tempe during Spring Break. I'll have to borrow my mom's camera until I can get mine fixed.
Dr Emmons gave instructions about basic robot/computer programming and helped the kids (& adults!) understand that you have to program every little detail. They played with Lego Mindstorm Robots and were able to program the computer& download it to the robot and then watch their robot do what they had told it to do. It was fun but crazy & loud with so many people participating. It's nice to have a bigger crowd but it did take away from the time that each kid was able to spend playing with the actual robots.
A weird thing happened to me at Science Saturday...I pulled my camera out to take photos and got the error message that I did not have a memory card in the camera. I figured I had just neglected to take it out of my computer and put it back into the camera so I fished in my camera bag for another memory card. When I went to insert the memory card, lo and behold, I had not forgotten to replace the original memory card but, for some reason, my camera was not reading it. So, I played around with it for a while and it seems that there is something wrong with the memory card slot...the card does not "click" into the slot I took a few Science Saturday photos with my cell phone but they're, obviously, not as good.
When we got home, I tried to figure out a way to wedge cardstock or cardboard on top of the card but then couldn't close the cover and I didn't want to completely break it. I found a Canon forum on-line and posted my problem...hope I get an answer soon! It doesn't seem like it should be that hard to fix, as it's not a "technical" problem.
Bill suggested we all go to the Hooper Pool this afternoon so I decided to not stress about the camera. It was nice to relax at the pool and we had a nice visit with the Morins.
I do hope I get an answer soon from the forum about my camera but, I'm also planning to take it to a repair shop in Tempe during Spring Break. I'll have to borrow my mom's camera until I can get mine fixed.
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