"What is the light in the room?" - should it even matter. You can use one program for all lighting conditions by calibrating the color/light sensor of the LEGO Mindstorms EV3/NXT robots.
We are programming this strange construction to move in a square. This is a basic task, but it is worth doing for a robot with motors placed in different directions.
Building instruction for both EV3 and NXT. The whole catapult is build in exactly 78 steps.
These are building instruction for a working automatic catapult with a motor and a touch sensor.
Building instructions for a LEGO Mindstorms EV3 robot base. The attachment of the motors is quite interesting. We follow the angles of LEGO technic to attach them. This construction has some difficulties turning to the left and to the right. But if you have to take on an obstacle that high this is one of the options.
You can use all kinds of wheels on this robot - EV3, NXT or others. It doesn't actually matter.
Building instructions for a LEGO Mindstorms EV3 robot that we call Space Explorer. The motors are attached in a very interesting way to the brick. Both the brick and the motors are vertical and there are not many robots like this. With its ultrasonic sensor, this robot allows you to follow, find or avoid objects. Just like an explorer. And since it is a robot why not put it in space and call it "Space Explorer".
There is one part that is not from the EV3 sets, but you can actually skip it. You don't need it. Try to find which one.
"How do you build a forklift using only gear wheels and levers without a rake"... Ok, we would admit that is a difficult question. It even sounds difficult. So let's start with something easy. A LEGO Mindstorms EV3 robot. It lifts objects in the air. It uses two gear wheels that work together and then move in different directions and are placed perpendicular to each other... This sentence kind of got difficult again... Let me try again.
Follow the building instructions with these 70+ steps and you will have a very nice robot and you will learn a simple trick of how to use gears and change the directions in which they rotate.
This is the third version of the LEGO Mindstorms Grabber. This time we use a LEGO EV3 Medium motor and worm gear to make the two levers move smoothly and symmetrically.
This is an LEGO Mindstorms EV3-G program for the motor and touch sensor that we use for the LEGO Catapult
Where do you keep your robots? We like to keep them ordered....
Actually we lied. It is almost always a mess wtih boxes and parts everywhere. We had sum FUN building this IKEA Billy and putting some of the FIRST LEGO League Mission Models.
Here is Mintonet. The robot is created to be used in pairs, but you can also build just one and practice your shooting with a box. The robot works with plastic balls between 5 and 7 cm. Using the ultrasonic sensor it can detect either its partner or a box and then it shoots. How many balls can you score?
This is another LEGO Mindstorms grabber, but this time it has 4 fingers! They are moved simultaneously by a medium motor. The grabber was taken from Cron - LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Crane.
This is a robot, designed to easily lift a cup, while still holding it upright. The robot uses one motor attached to the brick to lift the cup to any angle you want. The cup we have added is purely cosmetic, but with a few adjustments, you can make it lift real cups. Be careful around liquids though!
This program is for Susan and Mark - a LEGO Mindstorms EV3 T-Rex chasing a car. The program makes the T-Rex wait for the car to reach a certain speed, and then attack it. This is made to resemble the T-Rex's said inability to see slow moving things. The goal of the program is to get the car's cable to stretch, while moving it by hand, when its wheels are turning and without the T-Rex noticing. The detection is made using the current power option on the motor rotation sensor.
Tohuru, from Maori, means owl.
Tohuru is a SPIKE Prime robot, that holds onto an edge and looks at the nearest object! It uses two medium motors to grip an edge between two wheels. In addition it has a head made out of an ultrasonic sensor, attached to a large motor, which allows it to turn 360 degrees! And most importantly, it looks like an Owl!
Pallo, from ancient Greek, means to throw or to hurl, which is a part of the modern name "catapult".
Pallo is a robot made of two parts. The first part of the robot is the catapult! It has no electronic parts and uses two rubber bands to shoot a projectile to the second part. The second part is the target. It has a color sensor, which through a piston with different colored sections, determines how accurately the target has been hit! Good luck with the shooting!
This is a Garbage container and it is fun. As all garbage containers it has only three wheels as one of the wheels is missing. You can also see how one of the wheels is a little different and broken to the side. Like all garbage containers.
The container is useful to play and put things inside.
Suitable for children 6-10 years old. Construct the Garbage Container and leave it for a week for the children to play with. They will spend at least an hour playing with it during the week
Are you a football fan? Here are the building instructions you'll need for the construction of the Football Goal, if you decide to play it with a Mindstorms 51515 Robot Inventor set. You'll also need to build the smallest robot Tricky with its Kick the ball attachment. The Mindstorms/Duplo ball is included in the set.
You can find the LEGO set, with which this was built, by following this link.
You can find constructions created to play with Tricky, by following the links below:
In this video tutorial we dance with the robot. The goal of the mission is to reach the specific place on the FIRST LEGO League field and to Dance. It is suitable for students that are new and it gives every team a chance to accomplish at least on mission on the competition.
