Materials List:
Panoptes and the Bionic Eye
Each group needs:
- writing utensils (pens, pencils, markers), for marking a histogram
- Panoptes and the Bionic Eye Pre-Quiz, one per student
- Panoptes and the Bionic Eye Worksheet, one per student
- Find Your Blind Spot Reading, one per student
- Panoptes and the Bionic Eye Post-Quiz, one per student
To share with the entire class:
- small flashlight (ideally with a lens less than 1 inch across, such as a small LED bulb);costs $10 or less
- Light Mask Stencil
- tape
- piece of cardboard (or other opaque material) on which to tape the stencil, or if performing the black box experiment variation, a cardboard box, such as a shoebox that is big enough to hold the LEGO robot
- something pointy to punch through the stencil into cardboard, making holes; for example, hole sizes up to the diameter of a Bic pen (8 mm) work well
- LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robot, such as the NXT Base Set (5003402) for $159.98 at https://shop.education.lego.com/legoed/en-US/catalog/product.jsp?productId=5003402& isSimpleSearch=false&ProductLine=NXT
- LEGO MINDSTORMS Education NXT Software 2.1, available as a single license (2000080) for $39.97 or a site license (5003413) for $271.96 at https://shop.education.lego.com/legoed/en-US/catalog/product.jsp?productId=prod120017&isSimpleSearch=false&ProductLine=LEGO+MINDSTORMS+Education+NXT
- computer, loaded with NXT 2.1 software
- 3 additional LEGO NXT Light Sensors for $19.99 each at http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Light-Sensor-9844
- ruler, for constructing the Panoptes assembly and positioning the stencil from the robot
- computer with the Python interpreter (www.python.org) plus supporting packages OR an internet connection to permit data processing through a web interface (www.pythonanywhere.com)
