STEM & Robotics Courses

Become the best remote control driver at VEX IQ competitions. Test your skills in a number of challenges now. Pass them successfully and become a "Class R1" driver.

The goal of "FLLCasts Certified VEX Driver - Class R1" is to certify your abilities to remotely control a VEX IQ robot. Everything is prepared for you. The course book contains a robot to build, remote control program to download and challenges to complete. If you complete each challenge below a certain time, and prove it, you will receive the "FLLCasts Certified VEX Driver - Class R1" certificate. 

Find the Complete Guide at VEX IQ Robotics Competition

The first level of the course book is currently available for a free as it is in a Pre-release.

This will be the second version of the course book, "A robot a 'day' keeps the question awake". Currently it is a pre-released. Which means that we are working on it and will release it soon.

1. Build one robot each day; 

2. download a ready program;

3. complete three challenges.

The robots, programs and tasks are designed to be used by the student on their own with a really little help from their parents.

"How to use the LEGO robots to facilitate the learning of robotics by my student at home" or simply put - "what to build now?"

After enrolling in this course we will send you a few (1-2-3) emails each month with a title "A robot a 'day'". Each email contains a robot building instructions and/or video tutorials and/or tasks that should be accomplished. After a task is accomplished we might sometimes ask for a video or picture.

This process gives a structure of the learning process where you can learn from the content. The student participates in a course, but from home and on the schedule that you decide.

Disassemble a remote control car. Change the brain of the car with a smart computer like Raspberry Pi. Build a smart device with artificial intelligence that you could control from your phone and that could freely navigate itself in the real world and on the Internet. Use your hands. Develop programs for your robot and your phone. Be curious and invent. 

The perfect course lives up to its name. You move through the content, we check it and return feedback to you. 

In the end, you should be able to better understand how to program and design smart devices that would make the world a better place. For everybody age 12+, 16+, 21+, 35+, etc. The hardware costs about 150$. It changes through the years so it might take some time for you to find it as Raspberry PI, motor drivers, power banks and h-bridges.. they change. Note that the course was designed to be led by a teacher with a decent knowledge in embedded hardware and software. This, on the other hand should not stop you, if you are curious.

This course is designed for students, mentors and teachers that are completely new to LEGO Mindstorms EV3 robots and would like to start using them to learn, in classes or at competitions. It is quite different from previously built resources at FLLCasts because it makes no assumption on any previous knowledge and tries to introduce everything step-by-step.