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Learning Lego Mindstorms EV3

You're reading from Learning Lego Mindstorms EV3 Build and create interactive, sensor-based robots using your LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 kit

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783985029

Length 284 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Lego Mindstorms

Concepts

Single Board Computers

Author (1):

Gary Garber

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Engineering Notebook FREE CHAPTER

2. Mechanical Design

3. Drive Train and Chassis

4. Sensors and Control

5. Interacting with EV3

6. Output from EV3

7. Advanced Programming

8. Advanced Programming and Control

9. Experiment Software and Data Logging

10. Other Programming Languages

11. Communication between Robots

12. Advanced Robot – Gyro Boy

Index

Smart device control

Using your smartphone or a tablet app to control your robot is easy. There are numerous apps for the older NXT MINDSTORMS robot kits; over time there will be several for the EV3. The official LEGO app is called LEGO MINDSTORMS Robot Commander, and is available on Google Play for Android and on the Apple App Store for the iPhone and iPad. When pairing with your smart device, you need to make sure to select the special iPhone/iPad/iPod option on the Bluetooth setting on your EV3 brick.

Robot Commander has controls ready to use for all of the robots from the Home Edition kit. However, you will want to create your own robot and controller. LEGO Commander will control assigned motors. You can create screen-based virtual joysticks, sliders, switches, or buttons. You can see the virtual joystick at the top left of the preceding screenshot. You can also use the accelerometers built into your smart device to control the robot's motors by tilting your smart device. LEGO Commander...

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Authors (1)

Garber

Garber

Gary Garber teaches physics, math, and engineering at Boston University Academy. Gary is the president of the New England Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers and has led dozens of professional development workshops in education at both the local and national levels. Gary runs the Boston University FIRST Robotics program. He has run and hosted numerous robotics workshops in VEX, Tetrix, and LEGO platforms. He has run dozens of LEGO robotics tournaments and spoken on robotics education at both local and national conferences. His robotics team has worked with Engineers Without Borders, NASA, and the National Science Teachers Association on a variety of engineering and education projects. He is currently an educational consultant, working to develop new software tools for the classroom, at the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach, which is a pioneer in LEGO Robotics Education. He is the author of Instant LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3, Packt Publishing. He currently resides in Massachusetts, US. When he is not playing with LEGO, robots, or toy trains, he enjoys spending time with his wife, Catalina, and their two children, Alejandro and Leonardo.

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