Tag: simulation

EV3 Simulator using RobotC: First glance at QEV3BotSim

Stan Simmons, an Associate Professor at Queen’s University in Canada, has developed a free Windows-based LEGO EV3 simulator as an adjunct to his physical robot classes. Although the LEGO Mindstorms NXT and EV3 Software packages are quite elaborate and extensive, they do not offer users the ability to test their programs in a virtual environment. […]

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Open Roberta: Beta 2.0 Released

Open Roberta (http://www.open-roberta.org/en/welcome/) is a free, drag-and-drop, cloud-based programming platform. We played around with it last year and wrote about how to use it to program a LEGO EV3 robot. (Check out this article if you’re interested: http://www.legoengineering.com/open-roberta/) Now, Open Roberta 2.0 beta is available for users. This new edition has many cool new features […]

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