Video tutorials

What a teacher should know when giving tasks to students

We got the speed of rotations of the motor in Radians per second. Let's calculate the value for the speed of the whole system. We calculate that the wheels are rotating with 375 radians per second. Which is impressive and quite fast for this system. From this speed, knowing the inertia mass we can calculate how much energy is the system accumulating. 

So far we know how to make a turn in an arc, just like the real cars do.
Today we will see what other options our robots have for turning.

Notes on building the FiveMinuteBot

We will learn how to connect and disconnect LEGO cables and on which ports exactly to connect the motors.

The most universal way to start your programs is from My Projects menu and we will cover details about that menu in the EV3 Brick.

Following the Advance Light/Color sensors calibration for a minimum value for a single sensor tutorial, in this one, we continue with finding the maximum value detected by a sensor and storing this value in an array.

Construct two legs for both sides of the robot. The task for this video is to attach this two legs on both sides and to build a system of gears and axles that power those legs.

We dispay the speed of rotation of the wheels on the brick screen. We use the math blocks to do a proper calculations from rotation to radians per second. Knowing the speed, the radiuses and the mass of the wheels we find energy in Joules accumulated in the construction.

There is no block for programming the Ultrasonic Sensor in the retail version of the LEGO Mindstorms EV3 software. In this video tutorial we will show you how you can download & import such blocks in order to use the sensor.

This is how to use the display block to show images with the EV3 software.

Let's make a program that moves the robot forward and then backward.

Explanation and demonstration of the big task for the lesson.

There are some things to be careful about when your students work with the brick.

What is allowed and what is not when building without instructions.

This is a teacher's note about the math behind calculating gear ratios with for our lifting attachment. It math model we build in previous tutorials is not exactly correct and here is the explanation why.

Each palette contains programming blocks that share common purpose. We will cover most of them

A note why we give the challenge at the start of the lesson.

The important task before the solution. If you haven't done it already, then attach a new axle at the front of the robot and extend the construction with gear wheels and axles to reach the two legs at the two sides of the robot. 

As an exercise try to implement the calibration of the minimum and maximum values for a single sensor. 

Robots could do chores for us and they must consider the load of the cargo or the robot could be damaged.

Let's make a competition - there is a pole that the robot must turn around and return home.

Implement the program for array initialization.

Follow the video tutorials for initializing arrays and implement the program. 

Our next robot is called CastorBot, because of the castor ball.

We encourage you to explore the software on your own.

Sometimes the answer that you get by calculating seems not to be right. Is it the calculation that is wrong. Probably it is not the calculation, but something is happening with the robot.