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Dr. E’s Challenges launch a new season

  • 14 October 201614 October 2016
  • EV3, NXT, WeDo
  • Challenge Ideas
  • News
Posted by Barbara Bratzel
The two Dr. E’s Challenges websites, WeDo and MINDSTORMS, have launched new cycles of challenges, starting with a joint challenge: Aviary: Let your imagination take flight! Design a bird to join our WeDo aviary. It can […]

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Dr. E’s Challenges launch a new season

  • EV3, NXT, WeDo
  • Challenge Ideas
  • News

Create apps for NXT with MIT App Inventor

  • 3 August 201616 December 2016
  • NXT
  • Challenge Ideas
Posted by Svein-Tore Narvestad
MIT App Inventor is a web-based tool for creating apps for Android phones. The apps you create are stored on a server and can be downloaded to your phone or computer as well. In this […]

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Create apps for NXT with MIT App Inventor

  • NXT
  • Challenge Ideas

Challenge your students with Dr E

  • 27 July 20167 September 2017
  • EV3, NXT, WeDo
  • Challenge Ideas
  • News
Posted by Barbara Bratzel
Dr E’s WeDo Challenges and Dr E’s MINDSTORMS Challenges are gearing up for a new series of activities, starting in October 2016. Created by Professor Ethan Danahy of Tufts University, these sites encourage students from around the world […]

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Challenge your students with Dr E

  • EV3, NXT, WeDo
  • Challenge Ideas
  • News

NXT exercises – One approach

  • 2 February 2016
  • Cross-Platform, NXT
  • Challenge Ideas
Posted by Craig
Another mentor and I developed the approach described below after we hit several roadblocks trying to show concepts, show programming examples, and then have the students replicate the demonstrated work. Instead of setting examples and […]

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NXT exercises – One approach

  • Cross-Platform, NXT
  • Challenge Ideas

Design, build, and program recycling solutions

  • 17 October 201524 June 2016
  • Cross-Platform, NXT
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Pedagogy
Posted by Kellie Taylor
5th grade robotics project Equipment/Materials: 8 laptops 24 Mindstorms kits Internet access Purpose: To design, build, and program a working model for a real world recycling problem. In addition, students were required to demonstrate their […]

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Design, build, and program recycling solutions

  • Cross-Platform, NXT
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Pedagogy

Pixy for LEGO: A smart vision sensor for NXT and EV3

  • 16 October 2015
  • EV3, NXT
  • News
Posted by Jesse
Charmed Labs have just released a version of Pixy (a vision sensor for Arduino) for LEGO Mindstorms. It’s a smart vision sensor, with the ability to learn and track colored objects with a single button press. The […]

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Pixy for LEGO: A smart vision sensor for NXT and EV3

  • EV3, NXT
  • News

Running MINDSTORMS NXT on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite

  • 30 September 201513 February 2016
  • NXT
  • How To
Posted by Barbara Bratzel
As a number of Mac users have discovered to their chagrin that the MINDSTORMS NXT Software (NXT-G) crashes on Apple computers running OS X Yosemite. The issue seems to be a problem with loading the Flash […]

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Running MINDSTORMS NXT on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite

  • NXT
  • How To

Dr E’s MINDSTORMS and WeDo Challenges: New Season

  • 30 September 20151 July 2016
  • EV3, NXT, WeDo
  • Challenge Ideas
  • News
Posted by Barbara Bratzel
Trick or Treat! The new challenge season has started for Dr E’s MINDSTORMS Challenges and Dr E’s WeDo Challenges, with a special joint Halloween challenge–to make a trick-or-treating robot. Every month, each site features a […]

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Dr E’s MINDSTORMS and WeDo Challenges: New Season

  • EV3, NXT, WeDo
  • Challenge Ideas
  • News

Robotics Competitions

  • 30 September 20151 July 2016
  • Cross-Platform, NXT, RCX
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Reference
Posted by Wayne Burnett
There are several ways to introduce LEGO robotics into your school or club. Dr. Amy Eguchi suggests three ways: thematic, project, and competition (see Alemisis, 2013 who references Eguchi). This post introduces some of the more […]

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Robotics Competitions

  • Cross-Platform, NXT, RCX
  • Challenge Ideas
  • Reference

Building with RCX/NXT lamps and EV3 pieces

  • 5 April 201521 December 2017
  • EV3, NXT, RCX
  • How To
  • Reflections
Posted by John Burfoot
On 27 February 2015, a small group of EDGErs went to LEGOLAND for an EV3 Hackathon. This post documents one of the projects that came out of the event. At the EV3 Hackathon, I was […]

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Building with RCX/NXT lamps and EV3 pieces

  • EV3, NXT, RCX
  • How To
  • Reflections

Learning sequence: Learn to build with LEGO

  • 17 December 20147 September 2017
  • Cross-Platform, NXT, RCX, WeDo
  • Getting Started
Posted by CEEO
This sequence of activities introduces the basic LEGO system pieces. It’s great for beginners and works well with young children. It also introduces the concept of testing and redesigning. How can we build a sturdy […]

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Learning sequence: Learn to build with LEGO

  • Cross-Platform, NXT, RCX, WeDo
  • Getting Started

Blogs and other websites

  • 17 December 201431 October 2017
  • EV3, NXT
  • Reference
Posted by Rob Torok
Here are some noteworthy blogs and other general websites (that didn’t fit into a neat category!). They range from a neat collection of building projects not directly related to a particular curriculum to a web […]

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Blogs and other websites

  • EV3, NXT
  • Reference

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