Kiwi Bird

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26 Apr 2019
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Have you ever seen kiwi? Where?

It is absolutely normal if you haven’t seen kiwi as they are native to New Zealand. Moreover, their species is endangered.

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You can see that kiwi and the kiwifruit are very much alike. Kiwi are the only birds that do not have tails! They don’t have wings, either. The only thing these birds need are two legs and a beak.

Courses and lessons with this Tutorial

This Tutorial is used in the following courses and lessons

Level D1. "Animals". Robotics with LEGO

This is the seventh level of the Robotics with LEGO curriculum for students in third or fourth grade.

In this level students focus on the rotational sensor that is part of every motor in the robotics set.
Robot constructions imitate animals and their behavior. Students create programs that check whether the robot's claws or pecks have successfully caught an object. That sensor in the motors allows the robots to go back in their lairs even after the use of unlimited movement.

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Lesson 4 - Kiwi

Introduction

Today we are going to build a robot which resembles a kiwi.

Yes, it would be great fun, but we won’t build a kiwi fruit robot. Our robot today resembles the bird kiwi.

A robot a "day" keeps the questions awake. Version 2.0 (PRE-RELEASE)

This will be the second version of the course book, "A robot a 'day' keeps the question awake". Currently it is a pre-released. Which means that we are working on it and will release it soon.

1. Build one robot each day;

2. download a ready program;

3. complete three challenges.

The robots, programs and tasks are designed to be used by the student on their own with a really little help from their parents.

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Lintu

Here is Lintu. It is a marvelous LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Animal robot that looks like Kiwi, the famous New Zealand bird. It is quite rare to see a Kiwi bird in person. But fear not, we've prepare a robot that looks almost exactly like the original.