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Real Steel Boxing Robot from LEGO Mindstorms

This is a LEGO Mindstorms Boxing robot. The inspiration story goes like this "One day we though - Let's play SUMO at this robotics demonstration, but let's make it more interesting. Let's play sumo with Humanoid Robots". We decided to build a boxing robot. The goal of the robot is to press the touch sensor on the other robot and it could be very fun. Perfect robot for demonstration. It is controlled by a joystick using the Bluetooth connection.

Here are the joystick and the programs for the joystick and the robots.

Joystick For Real Steel Lego Boxing Robot

Real Steel Boxing Robots Programs

#557
29 Oct 2018

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Geldautomaat, a LEGO Mindstorms EV3 ATM robot

Geldautomaat, from German, means ATM.

This is the last robot from the 3.0 course book in the LEGO Mindstorms Curriculum. It uses a Touch Sensor to sense if there is a card inside. When touched, a Medium Motor starts spinning and pulls the card inside its chamber, where a Color Sensor reads the data from the card.

NOTE: There is a step, where you have to place the "credit card" inside. It may seem unnecessary and pointless, but otherwise, you will not have proper support for the next steps and the construction will crumble.

#737
28 Mar 2019

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How to calibrate the Light Sensor for the Catapult build from Mindstorms EV3/NXT

"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.

#83
03 May 2015

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FIRST LEGO League (FLL) 2019-2020 City Shaper Challenge. Example solutions with explanations. EV3 and SPIKE

You probably know that every year we're releasing a Solutions and Review course for the missions of FIRST LEGO League competitions challenges. This year the situation with the competition is a bit different, but here we are - sitting here, acting kinda normal, figuring out what robot should we build to accomplish every mission 10 times in a row.

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Proportional Line Following with EV3 Mindstorms. Part 3

Last part of the series. The final touch of the program makes sure that it works and is following the line with the LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Color Sensor in a smooth and fast way.

#177
01 Nov 2015

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Gear construction and Ultrasonic for the FIRST LEGO League Senior Solutions Medicine

In this episode I would like to show you a way to solve the FLL 2012 Medicine mission using an LEGO Mindstorms NXT Ultrasonic Sensor and a system of gears that converts circular motion to linear.

#16
12 Apr 2013

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Making Menu as My Block in Mindstorms NXT-G

In this video lesson, we will show you how to build a menu as a MyBlock in LEGO Mindstorms NXG-G. Having a menu is a must at robotics competitions since it saves time and gives easy access to program functionalities.

#10
24 Mar 2013

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Proportional Line Following with EV3 Mindstorms. Part4. Extracting a block for EV3-G

We extract the Proportional Line Following algorithm into a new block with parameters. This allows us to experiment with the Threshold, Constant Speed and Relaxation Coefficient. You can now easily use the block in you other programs without having to implement it.

#216
27 Jan 2016

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Pinless attachments. FIRST LEGO League Trash Trek 2015.

In this video we discuss part of the pinless attachments build by the ELM team. Without pinless attachment it is nearly impossible to achieve a good score at the FIRST LEGO League competition.

#274
10 Apr 2016

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FLL 2019: Accomplish every time. M08 Elevator. 10 out of 10 successful runs with LEGO Education SPIKE Prime

In this tutorial we will use Whakatae - LEGO Education SPIKE Prime Box robot to complete a mission run from the FIRST LEGO League 2019-2020 competition for the M08 Elevator mission. We accomplish 10 out of 10 in this mission. A similar approach is demonstrated with LEGO Mindstorms EV3 at FLL 2019: Accomplish every time. M08 Elevator. 10 out of 10 successful runs

#1679
01 Jun 2020

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How to FIRST LEGO League Solve Senior Solutions Video Call, Blue Quilting And Woodworking

In this video we are solving part of the FIRST LEGO League Senior Solutions challange missions (FLL 2012) using LEGO Mindstorms NXT robots. I make a step by step explanation of each move I make. The goal of this video is to help you with ideas and suggestions on how one should look at the missions.

#32
27 Jul 2013

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FIRST LEGO League 2020-2021 RePlay Solutions and review with Robot Inventor

This course presents Solutions and Review of the FIRST LEGO League 2021 RePlay competition and it uses LEGO Mindstorms Robot Inventor as a base. It is a mirror course to the LEGO Education SPIKE course for the same competition. For each mission in the competition the course contains the rules for the mission, a tutorial how to accomplish it, instructions for the robot that is used and instructions for the attachment that is used. Every lesson also contains a Scratch and a Python program for accomplishing the mission and of course a 10 out of 10 tutorial that demonstrated how reliable the approach is. Upon completion of the course you will have many new ideas about how to approach mission on every FLL robotics competition and how to help your team score more points.

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FIRST LEGO League recommended additional parts and how to use them

Very often we need additional parts to build more complex attachments to increase our chance of winning the competition. These are parts outside of the LEGO Education SPIKE and LEGO Mindstorms sets. That is why, most teams decide to purchase parts that are not included in the official sets.

The FLLCasts team have prepared a list of recommended additional parts each team should have in order to be more successful. Of course, you can decide whether to buy more or less of each item depending on your budget.

Parts could often be found on bricklink.com and rebrickable.com

In the following course we would focus on the type of the recommended parts, share a list of them and publish tutorials on how these parts could be used to accomplish different missions. Our goal is to answer the questions "What could be done with LEGO?", "What parts are available 'out there'?

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How to build SUV Box Robot for LEGO Competitions

There are a few main challenges with box robots and in the following tutorial we would like to resolve them. Read on and let's see how we could do this.

#971
19 Aug 2018

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How does Crone, the LEGO Mindstrorms EV3 Crane Robot work?

LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Crane robot is used to lift, move and load cargo on a cargo truck. There is a mechanism for grabbing a cargo load (eg a blue ball). Crone is also a tower crane and there are balancing wheels on the opposite site of the grabbing mechanism. It was an ultrasonic sensor.

#1359
26 Jun 2019