Learning by Doing – Lego EV3 Robotics for the absolute beginner, build small robots and program them using EV3-G.
What You’ll Learn
- By the end of this course, you will have had fun building more than one small robot.
- You will learn how to teach your Robot to do what you want it to do, using the programming language EV3-G.
Requirements
- Have access to either the Education or Home version of the Lego MindStorms EV3 set.
Description
This is a robotics course for absolute beginners.
Over the last seven years we have had requests from grandparents, parents and teachers who claim to have no technical knowledge, that the free tutorials we have provided over the Internet be put together in a course that assumes absolutely no prior technical background, a course that they can use to help their middle school age grandchildren/children/students have fun with robots.
In this Robotics course for absolute beginners we try to answer that request, converting many of our free tutorials for use with Lego’s new EV3 MindStorms set. This course is about having fun building small Lego MindStorms EV3 robots, finding out how to command them to smile and speak, travel in straight and curved lines, and how to follow the edge of a line.
This mini-course includes about 2 hours of video tutorials. How long students take to complete this course varies enormously between students, but as a rough indication, we have used videos similar to these as the basis for about half of an 8-week, 2 hours per week after-school course for classes from Grade 5 to Grade 8, and for Adult Education and Parent/Child classes.
The course is structured as a “hands-on” “Learning-by-Doing” course, with new programming ideas introduced only when they are immediately needed by the robot. There is an absolute minimum of “talking-head” videos.
You will need to have access to a Lego MindStorms EV3 set. The course is suitable for both the Lego EV3 Education and the Lego EV3 Home sets. The course shows you how to download a free EV3-G Editor from Lego. This Lego Editor is suitable for both Windows and Apple computers, but does not work for Linux, tablets or smart phones. However the course videos can be played back on these devices, so that you can have the video directions available on a tablet right alongside your Lego set as you go through this course.
We have used the videos in this course during both individual and full-class lessons. The videos have also been used successfully by home study students.
The course includes downloadable arenas that can be printed out on A1 or A3 printers, for use during this course.
Enjoy!
Who this course is for:
- Middle school students, plus others who are “young in heart”!
Course content
11 sections • 41 lectures • 2h 23m total lengthCollapse all sections
Lego MindStorms EV3 Robotics for Absolute Beginners – Learning by Doing.1 lecture • 3min
- Introduction to Lego MindStorms EV3, video tutorials for absolute beginners02:46
Building our First LEGO MindStorms EV3 Robot Botticelli!6 lectures • 12min
- Building our First LEGO EV3 Robot Botticelli.00:35
- Fixing the Tyres – step 1 of 5.01:52
- Joining the Tyres to the Motors.01:54
- Joining the Motors to the Computer Brick.02:36
- Adding Back Legs to Robot Botticelli02:46
- Adding two Control Cables to Complete Robot Botticelli.02:19
Getting the LEGO software2 lectures • 6min
- Why we need the LEGO software01:35
- Downloading and installing the LEGO software04:51
How do we Teach Botticelli to do what we want him to do?4 lectures • 13min
- Making Sure we Connect the Right Cables in to the Right Sockets.02:07
- Our First Command for Botticelli is…02:27
- Botticelli moves!04:29
- Saving our Commands so we can use them again later.03:37
Approaching an Alien…6 lectures • 15min
- Overview – Approaching an Alien.00:51
- Put a Smile on Botticelli’s Face02:55
- Botticelli Goes Towards the Alien02:00
- Botticelli says “Hello” to the Alien and waits for a reply.04:00
- Botticelli says “Thank You” and “Goodbye” to the Alien.03:19
- Botticelli sadly races back home to safety!01:53
Changing Botticelli into a more advanced Robot, LucyBot.3 lectures • 12min
- Changing new EV3 Robot LucyBot’s motors.03:03
- EV3 EDUCATION SET ONLY – Building LucyBot’s back wheel.03:26
- EV3 HOME SET ONLY – Building LucyBot’s back wheels.05:58
Sending LucyBot Around the Moon!4 lectures • 8min
- Around the Moon – Overview02:07
- Sending LucyBot into Space.02:13
- Teaching LucyBot to Curve Around the Moon.01:56
- Getting LucyBot safely back to Earth.02:07
Challenge: A Lego EV3 Robot Floor Cleaner?6 lectures • 12min
- Overview: A Lego EV3 Robot Floor Cleaner?01:27
- Two examples of Floor Cleaner Runs from Margate School.00:48
- Five examples of Floor Cleaner Runs from Huonville School.02:20
- Three Floor Cleaner Runs from a TAG Workshop.01:17
- Two Floor Cleaner Runs from Mt. Nelson School.01:39
- Hints for Solving the Floor Cleaner Challenge.04:35
Building a new Robot, YayaBot.4 lectures • 46min
- Building YayaBot – Overview01:20
- Building YayaBot, Part 1.22:49
- EV3 EDUCATION SET ONLY – Building YayaBot, Part 2.13:46
- EV3 HOME SET ONLY – Building YayaBot, Part 2.07:53
YayaBot Follows the Edge of a Line…4 lectures • 15min
- Overview – YayaBot follows the Edge of a Line.02:04
- YayaBot’s Color Sensor can see the difference between black and white.01:47
- Programming YayaBot to Follow the Edge of a Line (Part 1).06:25
- Programming YayaBot to Follow the Edge of a Line (Part 2).04:34
Thank you1 lecture • 1min
- Thank you for watching, and do you want more?01:22
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