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Learning Lego Mindstorms EV3

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Product type Book

Published in Jan 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783985029

Pages 284 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Concepts

Single Board Computers

Author (1):

Gary Garber

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Learning LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Engineering Notebook

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

Using sensors

What is great about the official LEGO EV3 (and some NXT) sensors is that the software on the EV3 brick will Auto-ID the sensors as soon as they are plugged in. This makes it easy to use the sensors because you do not need to tell the brick what you plugged in. If you are using older LEGO sensors or sensors from other manufacturers, you will have to download and import sensor blocks that will control those sensors. The sensor blocks have the code to control the sensor and convert the signals from the sensor into readable values. You can download these .ev3b files from the manufacturer's website. These third-party companies include HiTechnic, Dexter, and Vernier to name a few. The Retail Home Edition and the Educational Edition of the EV3 kit come with different sensors. The Educational Edition of the software is ready to use all of the EV3 sensors. The Retail Home Edition of the software is not ready to use the gyro or the Ultrasonic motion sensor. To use the gyro or the Ultrasonic...

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Authors (1)

Gary 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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