These are a couple of structured examples and tutorials of how the missions for FIRST LEGO League 2015 Trash Trek competition could be accomplished. We've gathered recordings and explanations from which students and teacher can learn a lot. There are missions and attachment for dropping, carabiner, loops and other interesting and challenging robotics missions from the competition.
Building instructions for a LEGO Mindstorms Catapult Motor and Touch Sensor that are used for triggers for firing objects
Build a robot base to use in the course. You can use the robot base provided by us or you can build one yourself.
Can you find out why the robot is called "Omusbot"?
The robot is made as a nice base for more advanced LEGO Sumo competition. It uses two motors, which are put on backwards for more traction. On the front, it has a color sensor, which detects the border line of the field. Over them, there is an ultrasonic sensor, that detects the enemy robot. Finally, on the back, the robot has a touch sensor to detect if it is being pushed.
The kinesthetic and memory game works with a program you can download from here. In these instructions you will see the 7 modules from which it is built:
This robot is meant to be very modular and to enable its owner to upgrade it and modify it.
How do you lift heavy objects with an attachment? In this episode we show a simple, interesting, but yet not very popular way to lift something heavy with and LEGO Mindstorms EV3 robot and without gears and motors as attachment. As a specific example we are using the Strength Exercise mission from the FIRST LEGO League 2012 competition.
In EV3 you can create a new thread in two ways - using a new start block or using wires. In this tutorial we will take a look at the Start Block.
