Teacher's Notes on building the FiveMinuteBot

Notes on building the FiveMinuteBot

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19 Mar 2017
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The name of the robot is interesting. It basically means that you could build the robot in about 5 minutes. But this is if you have the experience. Generally, students could do it in about 20-30 minutes when building it for the first time.

You can even have a competition with your students. An experienced teacher from our team managed to build this robot without instructions in about 2.5 minutes.

Five Minute Bot

Building instructions for a LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Robot that we call the Five Minute Bot because it could be built in Five Minutes.

Note: If the robot is making inconsistent turns due to the floor, modify the castor wheel so it is placed further back in the construction. Thus the center of mass falls more over the tires and the turns are more consistent.

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A few notes for the teachers when using the Five Minute Robot in class. The Five Minute Bot.

One of the very funny things about this robot is the name. Because we call it a Five Minute Bot and it will take students approximately 20 to 30 minutes to construct this robot. So, you can always use the name as a joke for this robot like 'I'm giving you this Five Minute Bot but I'm sure that nobody will do it in 5 minutes.' Or something of that sort. And the name is funny because you can actually track them and measure them. It is possible to do it in about 2 minutes when you have all the parts removed and sorted and you can just use them so they are not in the box. But if the parts are in the box it will take you more than 5 minutes. But we've done a competition in our team and it's like in about 2 minutes you can construct this robot. The next thing is the steel wheel at the back of the robot and this wheel comes only with the EV3 sets. This wheel is not available in the NXT sets. And it was something new introduced with the EV3 but our experience with this steel ball is not that good because it provides a very easy solution to a very complex problem. And most of the students just fall back for this solution. And then they learn to use only this type of wheels as back wheels. Only the ball. And these are the few things for the Five Minute Bot.

Courses and lessons with this Tutorial

This Tutorial is used in the following courses and lessons

Robotics with LEGO - Level 1.0 - Adventure in Space

The first level of the Robotics with LEGO curriculum for students in fifth to twelfth grades.

Various constructions with robots are built. Learn how to control the motors so that the robot navigates around the Moon and Earth in various ways. Getting to know the first two sensors. The robot can feel its surroundings with the help of the Touch sensor and avoid obstacles.
The Ultrasonic distance sensor can help the robot avoid obstacles. Students work with concepts like loop, degrees and medium motor. Robots can now do two different actions at the same time - while solving missions on a field, the third motor clears detected obstacles.

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Lesson 2 - The far side of the Moon

Introduction

EV3 Phi. Introduction to robotics with LEGO Mindstorms

The things that you will be able to do with your EV3 robot by the end of this course are:

Freely move your robot towards desired target;
Avoid obstacles on the path of your robot using sensors;
Follow lines of any shape;
Detecting and picking up objects of any kind;

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Build the Five Minute Robot

In this episode we will show you how to build the FiveMinuteBot. We will make a quick overview of this Mindstorm Robot.

Level A1. Introduction. Robotics with LEGO

Introduction to robotics - The first level of the Robotics with LEGO curriculum for students in second, third or fourth grades. A journey in space, with robots. Various constructions with robots are built. Learn how to control the motors so that the robot navigates around the Sun, the Moon and Earth in various ways. Getting to know the first of the sensors. The robot can feel its surroundings with the help of the Touch sensor and avoid obstacles.