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Linkage Warm Ups: LEGO Punchers and the 4-Bar Linkage

  • 13 April 2019
  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Reflections
Posted by Wade
Before attempting to build walking robots like TrotBot and Strider, we first played with linkages in a few simpler challenges like “punchers”, which utilize a 4-bar linkage to create a simple robotic arm.  Here’s a […]

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Linkage Warm Ups: LEGO Punchers and the 4-Bar Linkage

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Reflections

The Plan and the Reality – And so It Begins…

  • 13 April 201913 April 2019
  • Cross-Platform, EV3
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Pedagogy
  • Reflections
Posted by Rob Torok
This is the first of a series of posts documenting my approach to teaching robotics in a year 11/12 Engineering Design class. The students are 16- to 19-year olds and we typically have three ~90 […]

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The Plan and the Reality – And so It Begins…

  • Cross-Platform, EV3
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Pedagogy
  • Reflections

LEGO for the Blind: Touching the Untouchable

  • 29 November 20182 April 2019
  • Big Ideas
  • Featured
  • Reflections
Posted by Guest Contributor
By guest contributor, Matthew Shifrin, a blind LEGO builder. It was the morning of my thirteenth birthday, and I was filled with the usual birthday excitement. I was most eager to see my friend Lilya. […]

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LEGO for the Blind: Touching the Untouchable

  • Big Ideas
  • Featured
  • Reflections

Rapidly Prototyping Strider Ver 3 To Be Smoother, Stronger, Faster

  • 30 August 20182 April 2019
  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Reflections
Posted by Wade
This summer we used our Strider optimizer coupled with rapid prototyping in LEGO to refine its 10-bar linkage. In a tiny fraction of the time it took us to refine TrotBot’s linkage in our garage, we […]

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Rapidly Prototyping Strider Ver 3 To Be Smoother, Stronger, Faster

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Reflections

Reflections on Vassilis Chryssanthakopoulos

  • 27 March 201827 March 2018
  • Big Ideas
  • Reflections
Posted by Asha
Vassilis Chryssanthakopoulos was an internationally acclaimed LEGO robotics designer and a MINDSTORMS Community Partner (MCP). He realized his dream of creating an innovative educational concept  though the creation of blast in 2015. In 2017, he extended […]

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Reflections on Vassilis Chryssanthakopoulos

  • Big Ideas
  • Reflections

DIY Walkers: Klann’s Mechanical Spider

  • 26 March 201826 March 2019
  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Inspiration
  • Reflections
Posted by Ben Vagle
This creation is a LEGO-based version of Klann’s Mechanical Spider, which makes use of one of the best known walking mechanisms, the Klann linkage. The Klann linkage was designed by mechanical engineer Joe Klann and […]

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DIY Walkers: Klann’s Mechanical Spider

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Inspiration
  • Reflections

Using PocketLab with Simple & Powered Machines

  • 16 November 201722 December 2017
  • Machines & Mechanisms
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Reflections
Posted by Susan Bitetti
What happens when you pair LEGO Education’s Simple & Powered Machines set with a pocket-sized all-in-one set of sensors? This summer, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach hosted a group of science and technology […]

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Using PocketLab with Simple & Powered Machines

  • Machines & Mechanisms
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Reflections

Insights From the Robodogs Robotics Summer Camp

  • 19 October 20172 April 2019
  • Cross-Platform, EV3
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Pedagogy
  • Reflections
Posted by Aaron Maurer
How do you design a robotics camp that pushes the envelope for repeat customers while also keeping the learning entry low enough for new students to feel success? How do you come up with new […]

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Insights From the Robodogs Robotics Summer Camp

  • Cross-Platform, EV3
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Pedagogy
  • Reflections

Hexapod TrotBot: A classroom-friendly DIY walker

  • 19 October 201727 September 2018
  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Reflections
Posted by Ben Vagle
I recently had an internship at the University of Denver’s Innovation Floor, where I wrote curriculum on walking machines geared toward a middle school audience. I’m going to pilot this curriculum by teaching a class […]

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Hexapod TrotBot: A classroom-friendly DIY walker

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Reflections

EV3 TrotBot Version 2: Inspired by a Galloping Horse

  • 4 May 201718 May 2017
  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Reflections
Posted by Ben Vagle
In the same way that it is more tiring to do lunges than it is to simply walk, robots with bumpy gaits require more power than robots with smooth gaits. This may not be a […]

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EV3 TrotBot Version 2: Inspired by a Galloping Horse

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Reflections

A Week in the Life #12: Dr. E’s Challenges – Robot Monsters!

  • 9 February 201723 February 2017
  • EV3
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Pedagogy
  • Reflections
Posted by Ian Chow-Miller
I teach an introductory course using the LEGO Mindstorms EV3 set. My students are 7th graders who are required to take the course and may not necessarily have any background in programming/building. My school is […]

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A Week in the Life #12: Dr. E’s Challenges – Robot Monsters!

  • EV3
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Pedagogy
  • Reflections

DIY Walkers: Strider

  • 29 January 20177 February 2017
  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Reflections
Posted by Ben Vagle
Strider is an entry-level walker we created when we were trying to discover a linkage mechanism that mimicked the gait of a galloping horse for TrotBot. We explored many options, and one of them led to Strider […]

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DIY Walkers: Strider

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Reflections

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