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Get Started with SPIKE Prime

  • 2 May 202013 May 2020
  • SPIKE Prime
  • Getting Started
  • Reference
Posted by Rob Torok
LEGO Education SPIKE Prime is a robotics platform designed for grade 5-8 students, announced in 2019 and released in 2020. In terms of complexity, it is positioned in between WeDo 2.0 and EV3. The SPIKE […]

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Get Started with SPIKE Prime

  • SPIKE Prime
  • Getting Started
  • Reference

Virtual Robots, Brick Emulators, and Simulated Environments

  • 24 April 202024 July 2020
  • EV3
  • Featured
  • Reference
Posted by Rob Torok
Are you looking for a way to enable your students to program a LEGO robot without access to the hardware? Here’s a summary of some of the most popular and accessible EV3 emulators and virtual environments […]

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Virtual Robots, Brick Emulators, and Simulated Environments

  • EV3
  • Featured
  • Reference

Inspiration and support for teachers

  • 21 April 2020
Posted by Rob Torok
The aim of this site is to inspire and support teachers to go beyond the basics in bringing LEGO-based engineering to all students. New to LEGO robotics in the classroom? Let us help you get […]

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Inspiration and support for teachers

Relay Race

  • 15 August 201915 May 2020
  • Cross-Platform, EV3
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Pedagogy
  • Reflections
Posted by Rob Torok
This challenge is all about communication. From a robot design perspective, there’s a technical challenge about how to make one robot signal another. But beyond that, there’s also a great opportunity for students to develop their […]

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Relay Race

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

Line Following and Proportional Controls

  • 15 August 2019
  • EV3
  • Big Ideas
  • Challenge Ideas
Posted by Rob Torok
The aim of this challenge is to create a robot vehicle that follows a line and avoids collisions with obstacles – including other vehicles! Robot design All you need for the most basic version of […]

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Line Following and Proportional Controls

  • EV3
  • Big Ideas
  • Challenge Ideas

Tufts Teacher Engineering Education Program (TEEP)

  • 18 June 201918 June 2019
  • News
  • Pedagogy
Posted by Rob Torok
Tufts Teacher Engineering Education Program (TEEP) is a flexible, affordable, online, graduate credit-earning program from Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO), that takes any K12 teacher on an 18 month journey leading […]

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Tufts Teacher Engineering Education Program (TEEP)

  • News
  • Pedagogy

Linkage Warm Ups 2: LEGO Jumpers and Hoppers

  • 28 May 201928 May 2019
  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas
Posted by Wade
Here’s another easy challenge to expose students to linkages. Jumpers use the same 4-bar linkage as punchers, but are angled to push down to drive the mechanism up. They can be easily modified to jump straight […]

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Linkage Warm Ups 2: LEGO Jumpers and Hoppers

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas

Steepest Incline

  • 16 May 201920 May 2020
  • EV3
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Getting Started
  • Pedagogy
  • Reflections
Posted by Rob Torok
This variation of the classic Ramp Climber challenge builds on the original challenge with the use of sensors to start and stop the robot. Framed in this way, it works well as a very basic intro to […]

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Steepest Incline

  • EV3
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Getting Started
  • Pedagogy
  • Reflections

Yellow Diamond Error in EV3 Software

  • 7 May 20197 May 2019
  • EV3
  • How To
Posted by Jim
One of my robotics teams recently ran across an error message and problem that I had never seen before. While they were rehearsing for a local robotics competition, their robot began to act “wacky”. I suggested […]

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Yellow Diamond Error in EV3 Software

  • EV3
  • How To

Linkage Warm Ups 1: LEGO Punchers and the 4-Bar Linkage

  • 13 April 201928 May 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 1: LEGO Punchers and the 4-Bar Linkage

  • Cross-Platform
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Reflections

Silly Walks

  • 13 April 201920 May 2020
  • Cross-Platform, EV3
  • Challenge Ideas
Posted by Rob Torok
This classic introductory robotics challenge requires little, if any, formal teaching. In addition to being a lot of fun, it provides a great way of assessing prior experience. At the very least, it allows you to check […]

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Silly Walks

  • Cross-Platform, EV3
  • Challenge Ideas

Write Better Code with Design Patterns in EV3

  • 14 February 20192 April 2019
  • Cross-Platform, EV3
  • Big Ideas
Posted by Josep Fargas
A software design pattern is a reusable solution for a commonly occurring problem. It is not a finished solution, but rather a template for how to solve problems in a variety of different contexts. Using a design […]

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Write Better Code with Design Patterns in EV3

  • Cross-Platform, EV3
  • Big Ideas

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