A brief survey of Distributed Computational Toys

Proceedings - DIGITEL 2007: First IEEE International Workshop on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 57-64

  Schweikardt, Eric ^a   Gross, Mark D ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTATIONAL TOYS; MICROCONTROLLER NETWORK;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MICROCONTROLLERS;

ANIMATION;

EID: 34547668892     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DIGITEL.2007.4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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