Building Instructions

This incredibly compact SPIKE Prime Box Robot is made for competitions like FIRST LEGO League (FLL) and World Robotics Olympiad (WRO). Whakatae (from Maori's word "whakataetae", which means "competitive") is long 17 LEGO units and is with a width of 15 LEGO units. In front of the wheels it has two color sensors which it uses to align. Whakatae also has two Large motors for moving and has two medium motors for attachments! The best part is that in order to build this SPIKE Prime Box robot you only need the Base set, a Large motor and a color sensor.

This 3D building instruction is about a FIRST LEGO League 2020 mission called the Slide mission. To accomplish the mission the LEGO Robot must take two LEGO minifigures from a slide and bring them back to base. The whole attachment is built only with parts from LEGO Mindstrorms Robot Inventor Set.

The Sports Utility Vehicle box robot is the new marvelous box robot that we've created. It is designed for teams that would like to learn how to build balanced, stable and working robot chassis following our box principle. It is smaller and easier to build than box robot 1 and it is more simple than box robot 2. 

The main advantages of this robot compared to previous box robots are 

 - motors in the right direction, so when rotating the motor forward, the robot moves forward.

 - it is much easier to attach attachments. There are 4 different gears on which you could attach attachments. 

 - it has a large clearance - which means that it could move over obstacles.

Of course, it has a Gyro and two Color Sensors.  Not only that, but we have all the cables shown in the construction.

When not to use this robot?

The SUV Box robot is design to be used with a Gyro sensor and two Color Sensors for alignment. It is not working well for following lines as the sensors are very high and they are very high to allow for high clearance of the chassis. If you need to follow lines we recommend the Dominator X-Y robot

Attachments:

 - [How NOT To] Build An Active Attachment For SUV Box Robot

 - Simple Pinless Attachment for the SUV Box Robot

 - SUV Front Active Attachment for Box Robot

 - Attachments Frame for SUV Box Robot

This is a flip attachment. Arguably the flip missions are some of the most interesting on FLL competitions. The purpose of this attachment is to accomplish the FIRST LEGO League 2020 Cell Phone Mission. It contains two four gear wheels. It is an active attachment. It changes the direction with gear wheels. There is a lot one could learn from such an attachment. It is also build only from parts in the LEGO Mindstorms Robot Inventor Set.

Dominator is a compact LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Box robot from the family of the Roller Coaster and Kiddo box robots. Similar to the previous two robots, Dominator also can move its front part up, down, left and right. This robot also has the same length of movement as its two predecessors of this type - 8 LEGO pins on the side and up.

The difference is that Dominator has fewer parts and has a perfect center of weight that allows it to use large attachments and lift heavy objects without threatening its stability. The movement on the X and Y axes has the same gear ratio. The light sensors are attached to the movable part of the robot which enables it to both follow a line and recognize the color of various object with height lower than 7 LEGO units.

This is a robot attachment built only with parts from LEGO Mindstorms Robot Inventor Set. The goal of the attachment is to accomplish the FIRST LEGO League 2020 RePlay mission call Treadmill. The attachment has two gear wheels that could transfer the power from the motors to the wheel. The wheel is the one that is accomplishing the mission as it rotates and rotates. The attachment is pinless.

Luly is a new STEAM competition robot from LEGO Education SPIKE Prime. We would use in some of the courses. It's simple, it requires a really small number of parts and we can demonstrate most of the attachments and programs with it. Check out the courses below and see how Luly is used to complete in a competition.

With this LEGO robot attachment from LEGO Mindstorms Robot Inventor we accomplish the Rowing Machine from FIRST LEGO League 2020. The attachment works like a hook that catches the wheel of the Rowing Machine mission model and pulls on it. There are gear wheels that transfer the power from the robot motors to the hook at the end. This attachment shows the principle of catching things

This is a robot attachment build only from LEGO Mindstorms Robot Inventor parts and it is used to accomplish the Weight Machine mission at the FIRST LEGO League 2020 competition. It is not a completely accurate attachment but it shows a good idea on how to accomplish the mission.

Here is an idea. What if a robot does not need attachments. What if there is one special attachment on the front that could do most of the work? Probably an attachment that allows you to move a lever in any direction.

This here is a Box Robot with X - Y axys plane. This robot doesn't need active attachments because it has X - Y table that do the job. Imagine that there is a plane on the front of the robot. With the rack mechanism you can move to any coordinates on this plane. 

We have a lot of ideas how to make it even better. We will try to release them in the next few versions.

The purpose of this attachment is to flip the tires in the FIRST LEGO League 2020 Replay competition. There are two tires on the field. The attachment must flip them and return them to their initial position. This is an extremely interesting attachment that is using friction and force in order to flip the tires.

Meet Kiddo, smaller sister of Roller Coaster. It is smaller, easier to build and easier to control box robot with X-Y moving plate.

The goal of this robot is to have one complex attachment that could move in four directions. With such an attachment you can solve a lot of complex tasks without loosing time changing attachments. It is also quite sturdy and packed

This is a complex three parts attachment for the FIRST LEGO League 2020 Replay competition mission called Boccia. The attachment does three things in the same time. It can align to a mission model, It has a contained for boxes that should be dropped and it also has a lever to rotate the boccia target mission model. On top of the that the attachment is working 10 out of 10

The second part of the attachment is used to connect the robot with the pull-up bar. This attachment demonstrates a locking mechanism and can hold the weight of the whole robot while the robot is on the pull-up bar.

This is a FIRST LEGO League robot attachment for the Step Counter mission from the 2020 RePlay competition. It is a pinless attachment that is optional and could be used on the robot or we can accomplish the mission without the attachment. It is better to use the attachment as this will give us a more smooth and accurate movement of the robot.

This is part one of an FLL 2020 attachment used to accomplish the pull-up bar mission. This is the part of the attachment that stays below the robot. We put the whole robot on this attachment and we move. It is an interesting approach because as we move to the pull up bar this attachment detaches itself from the robot.