LEGO EV3
LEGO EV3
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LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 is the third version of LEGO’s MINDSTORMS robotics platform. It was launched in September 2013, and follows the RCX (1998) and the NXT (2006).
The MINDSTORMS EV3 kit includes a programmable brick (also known as the EV3 brick), motors, sensors, and LEGO Technic parts. It was retired in June 2021
Guides and Activities
Guides and Activities
LEGO MINDSTORMS Education EV3 Classroom App -The app includes teacher resources, units, lessons and more.
EV3 Lessons for Driving Base - Lessons for programming the EV3 driving base - distance, turns and sensors
EV3 and Scratch - Connecting EV3 to Scratch expands the possibilities: build a robotic puppet and tell stories, make your own musical instruments and game controllers, or whatever else you can imagine.
Simple Build EV3 Robotic Vehicle by Damien Kee
- visual step-by-step directions to quickly build a steering robot which allows you or your class to get right into the programming
- there are also directions for how to add different kinds of sensors and other attachments
The LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Idea Book - 181 Simple Machines and Clever Contraptions (PDF version )
Student Worksheets/Activities by Damien Kee
Freely offered worksheets by Damien Kee from his book, Classroom Activities for the Busy Teacher: EV3
Good start on thinking how you might structure your own activities or simply use these
Classroom Activities for the Busy Teacher: EV3 by Damien Kee
A 10 week curriculum package for implementing the LEGO Education EV3 Core Set (45544) in your class. Containing over 20 chapters that follow a planetary exploration storyline, you will be introducing students to the basics of the EV3 Core Set and gradually incorporating sensor and useful programming concepts.
All challenges follow a similar structure with an overview project, equipment needed and Teachers' notes. Example programs as well as tips and tricks are included to assist the teacher and student worksheets can be either photocopied or downloaded from the website. Full building instructions necessary to construct the RileyRover Base design and all required attachments are also included.
In addition to specific Robot challenges, the book also offers activities based around Robots in Society, Flowcharting and Multimedia Presentations.
This list has been setup to support those that use robotics in an educational setting.
This is a pretty active forum
How Do You Store Your Lego Pieces?
Google Doc of Example Storage Solutions from around the World started by Damien Kee
Steve Farnsworth’s Way
- I label each lego box for the same kinds of parts. By keeping the categories broad and general, it is easy for the students to figure out where pieces go and it doesn’t take much time to sort the pieces. And they tend to find things pretty quickly. The most difficult pieces to sort through and find are usually the connectors. If not all the wheels fit in one box then I simply have two boxes of wheels. Oh and I take out the trays that come in the boxes and I have students use them sometimes for their ongoing projects or to collect pieces for their project.
Here are my categories for the boxes:
Motors, Connectors, Beams, Bent Beams, Fun Stuff (for balls, people and weird decorative pieces), Wires, Gears, Wheels, MicroControllers, USB Cables, Axles, Sensors, Bricks (these are the basic lego pieces that are good for building walls), Flats, Studded Beams (the old beams with the studs on top)
To understand and promote engineering education in elementary schools.
has a number of teacher resources for teaching robotics
EV3, NXT, RCX robot builds, programming etc.
Exploration of EV3 robot builds and programming etc.
How to Connect Arduino and EV3
NXT and EV3 Resources
Create a game of Memory using arrays
Arrays are a new edition the MINDSTORMS software that the previous NXT-G software didn't support (at least not cleanly). Arrays allow us to store multiple bits of data all in the one 'thing', which makes it easier to access. If you think of Variables as being a suitcase where you can read and write some information, then Arrays can be thought of as a suitcase that has lots of smaller folders inside. Each folder can store an individual piece of information and you can access that information but selecting suitcase, and then the folder inside.
MINDSTORMS EV3 news, LEGO projects, with building instructions and programming tutorials for cool LEGO robots
Tutorials on EV3 and NXT Mindstorms
Tutorials on EV3 and NXT Mindstorms
HOWTO Build your own 3-Wheels Holonomic Robot using LEGO
A holonomic robot can move in any direction. It is not limited to forward, backward and turning at varying arcs.
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