{"id":9691,"date":"2014-12-09T14:45:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T03:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legoeng.local?p=9691&#038;preview_id=9691"},"modified":"2022-08-01T12:17:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T02:17:30","slug":"optimal-prime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/optimal-prime\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimal Prime: Another quick EV3 robot build"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/optimal-prime\/optimal_prime\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9711\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9711\" src=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Optimal_prime-300x264.jpg\" alt=\"Optimal_prime\" width=\"300\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Optimal_prime-300x264.jpg 300w, http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Optimal_prime-600x528.jpg 600w, http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Optimal_prime.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Some time ago,\u00a0John Burfoot posted an EV3 build called <a title=\"The Harvester: A quick EV3 robot build\" href=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/the-harvester-a-quick-ev3-robot-build\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Harvester<\/a>,\u00a0a quick robot designed using just 49 pieces. I really liked the concept, so I played around with it a bit. The result was a robot\u00a0with 2 motors, 3 sensors, and only\u00a037 pieces (the sensors, motors, brick, and even the wires).<\/p>\n<p>While the Harvester uses the color\u00a0and ultra-sonic sensor, Optimal Prime uses the gyro, touch, and color\u00a0sensor. They each show how to use different parts from the EV3 education kit\u00a0and are built in different ways. Both can be used as reasonable starting points for a more complex FLL robot with more sensors or motors mounted on.<\/p>\n<p>Building instructions&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Optimal-Prime-Building-Instructions.zip\">Optimal Prime building instructions<\/a> (zip folder containing all images, 12.5MB)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago,\u00a0John Burfoot posted an EV3 build called The Harvester,\u00a0a quick robot designed using just 49 pieces. I really liked the concept, so I played around with it a bit. The result was a robot\u00a0with 2 motors, 3 sensors, and only\u00a037 pieces (the sensors, motors, brick, and even the wires). While the Harvester uses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":9711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[152,417,228],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9691"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14399,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9691\/revisions\/14399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}