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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

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

The Plan and the Reality 1: And so It Begins…

  • 13 April 201918 June 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 1: And so It Begins…

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

Silly Walks

  • 13 April 201918 June 2019
  • 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

Hour of Code With Robotics

  • 2 December 20182 April 2019
  • Cross-Platform, EV3, WeDo
  • Challenge Ideas
  • News and Events
Posted by Wayne Burnett
The Hour of Code is a global initiative to introduce young people (and those young at heart) to computer science. The Hour of Code takes place during Computer Science Education Week, which is held annually […]

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Hour of Code With Robotics

  • Cross-Platform, EV3, WeDo
  • Challenge Ideas
  • News and Events

You Are Invited to Revive a Challenge

  • 29 November 20182 April 2019
  • Cross-Platform
  • News and Events
Posted by Rob Torok
You are hopefully aware that this site is full of great ideas for design challenges to give your students. Some of these challenges, however, are starting to look a little dated and many of the earlier […]

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You Are Invited to Revive a Challenge

  • Cross-Platform
  • News and Events

Using Video to Assess Robotics Students

  • 21 November 20182 April 2019
  • Cross-Platform
  • Big Ideas
  • Featured
  • Pedagogy
Posted by Ian Chow-Miller
It’s okay to fail, you’re on camera! My school is in a 1:1 iPad district. Every student in our district from 2nd through 12th grade is given an iPad for use in school. As the […]

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Using Video to Assess Robotics Students

  • Cross-Platform
  • Big Ideas
  • Featured
  • Pedagogy

Cranes

  • 19 November 201821 November 2018
  • Cross-Platform, EV3
  • Challenge Ideas
Posted by Katie
In this series of challenges, students will design and build motorized crane that uses a pulley and a string to lift and lower heavy objects. They can incorporate gears into the design to provide enough […]

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Cranes

  • Cross-Platform, EV3
  • Challenge Ideas

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

Snail Car

  • 23 August 20182 April 2019
  • BOOST, Cross-Platform, EV3, NXT, WeDo
  • Challenge Ideas
Posted by Barbara Bratzel
Challenge Use gears to make a motorized car that moves as slowly as possible. Here are the rules: Your snail must include a power source such as an EV3 brick or WeDo hub, one or […]

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Snail Car

  • BOOST, Cross-Platform, EV3, NXT, WeDo
  • Challenge Ideas

Ramp Climber

  • 23 August 20182 April 2019
  • BOOST, Cross-Platform, EV3, NXT, WeDo
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Featured
Posted by Barbara Bratzel
The challenge Design and build a car that can climb as steep a ramp as possible. Engineers repeatedly test their creations and use the results to make improvements to their designs. As you test your […]

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Ramp Climber

  • BOOST, Cross-Platform, EV3, NXT, WeDo
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Featured

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