SP038. 2019-04-15

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[Curriculum-1.0] D2 lesson 1

Thumbnail for lesson 1 level D2

Created the first lesson in level D2. The topic of the lesson is making a pedalo robot to learn about Gyro sensor. The students have variant tasks for following a school of fish, using the gyro sensor for better accuracy. For now it is still mostly in bulgarian, but it will be translated.

link to the lesson


[Curriculum-1.0] Translate C2. Schedule to plami

We have Level C2. "Cooperation" translated in English. Now the course can be used both in Bulgarian and in English.


[Curriculum-1.0] Drag racer 402. Impossible at step 82

https://www.fllcasts.com/materials/406-drag-car-lego-mindstorms-ev3-car?ref=2560#is-js-viewer

The Drag Car instructions first empty step was removed, and the center of rotation was moved to a more center location. 1d5ec55839f3bfd84995b1065ded4be1df8af668Lego-Mindtsorms-Ev3-Drag-Car-Fllcasts-With-Cables.png


[Curriculum-1.0] Lesson 7 aftermath of level 3.0

  1. Changed the task 4858 to show the front side of the card.
  2. Changed the second teacher note to point the benefits of doing the last task as a group.
  3. Changed NRC to point the front side of the card.

[Curriculum-1.0] Create Dinosour robot

3D instructions of the Dinor3x robot were created. old 2D instructions: https://fllcasts.com/materials/668-dinosaur new 3D instructions: https://www.fllcasts.com/materials/734-dinosaur#is-js-viewer

Many bugs came up wen uploaded, but they were removed. A new task was created to add a thumbnail to the instructions.


[Curriculum-1.0] Create lesson 6 in level D1

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Created the sixth lesson in level D1. The topic of the lesson is making a Ram robot to learn about Motor rotation sensor. The students have variant tasks for exploring the Ram's behaviour and learning how to use rotation sensor to detect collision. For now it is still mostly in bulgarian, but it will be translated.

link to the lesson


[Curriculum-1.0] Create lesson 7 in level D1

Thumbnail for lesson 7 level D1 Created the seventh lesson in level D1. The topic of the lesson is making a Frog robot to learn about Motor rotation sensor. The students have tasks to make the frog jump and use a rotation sensor to make a game with it. For now it is still mostly in bulgarian, but it will be translated. link to the lesson


[Curriculum-1.0] D1 Lesson 7 aftermath

The seventh lesson of Level D1 is updated based on feedback from the held lessons.


[Curriculum-1.0] D1 Lesson 6 Aftermath

The sixth lesson of Level D1 is updated based on feedback from the held lessons.


[Curriculum-1.0] Create lesson 1 from 3.5

"1. Lesson 1 - Toll Access Radar Gate" from the course "Robotics with LEGO - Level 3.5 - Measurement tools" was created.

Course: https://fllcasts.com/bg/courses/34-robotics-with-lego-level-3-5

Lesson: https://fllcasts.com/bg/course_sections/752

Featuring the Radarfort robot: https://fllcasts.com/bg/materials/633-radarford-the-traffic-police-officer-speed-radar-robot-built-with-lego-mindstorms-ev3?ref=5091

This lesson covers the use of My Blocks and parameters. It gives a good idea how Toll stations work, and the way speed is controlled on the road without placing police officers on every corner.

Lesson 1 from Course 3.5 is created. It features a traffic control toll system with EV3 and a game of racing cars around oval circuit.

Lesson thumbnail


[Curriculum-1.0] Add warning to Geldautomaat robot instructions.

https://www.fllcasts.com/materials/737-geldautomaat-a-lego-mindstorms-ev3-atm-robot?ref=4862

Added some notes to the robot.


SP 38: [Curriculum-1.0] Repair the GeldAutomaat Robot to be easier, shorter and sturdier

The robot's instructions were improved. Now the "credit card" gives some support, so the beams will not sink inside the chamber. An animation, showing the proper way to insert the card was ordered.

https://fllcasts.com/bg/materials/737-geldautomaat-a-lego-mindstorms-ev3-atm-robot?ref=4862


[Curriculum-1.0] Adding changes to the Redarford robot

The robot was changed. The following changes were made: 1. Better brick connection to the rest of the robot. 2. Better viewing angle for the ultrasonic cable. 3. Symmetric legs. 4. Rubber base.

Robot link: https://fllcasts.com/bg/materials/633-radarford-the-traffic-police-officer-speed-radar-robot-built-with-lego-mindstorms-ev3

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[Curriculum-1.0] Translate the Radarford robot

A robots description was translated! https://www.fllcasts.com/bg/materials/633-radarford-the-traffic-police-officer-speed-radar-robot-built-with-lego-mindstorms-ev3


[Curriculum-1.0, Robots] improve forklift robot in A2

The instructions of the forklift robot from course A2 were updated. Link to the robot: https://fllcasts.com/materials/365-motocar-bot-lego-mindstorms-robot-that-is-kind-of-like-a-forklift?ref=2195#is-js-viewer Changes: 1. The gears were changed to increase the weight the middle motor can lift. 2. The way the middle motor connects to the brick was changed to make it easier. 3. Ultrasonic sensor was added. 4. Few more smaller adjustments were made to the way beams connect to each other. 5. A new task was made for updating the robots thumbnail.


[FLL-7.0] https://www.fllcasts.com/materials/51-ev3-competition-robot-by-mic-lowne Missing two parts at the robots.

Lego-Mindstorms-EV3-Mic-Lowne-Competition-Robot-Fllcasts.png

Added the missing two beams to the "EV3 Competition Robot by Mic Lowne" instructions. Link to the robot instructions: https://www.fllcasts.com/materials/51-ev3-competition-robot-by-mic-lowne#is-js-viewer The beams were added to steps 84 and 94.


[FLL-7.0] Material 170 is currently a PDF. Reimplement it for IS

Material 170 was rebuild in 3D format: https://www.fllcasts.com/materials/170-fll-robot-attachment


[Learn-at-Home-2.0] See if it is possible to modify the robot, so that they can be build from the retail set

It is not straight forward to convert the robots from core set to retail set. We can use the preprocessing script to ease the process.


[Learn-at-Home-2.0] Create Crab robot

A new robot was added! https://www.fllcasts.com/materials/746-crabbery-a-crab-robot-built-with-lego-mindstorms-ev3


[Learn-at-Home-2.0] Create a lesson for the Alice Rooster robot with the Commander App

A new lesson was created! https://www.fllcasts.com/course_sections/696


[Learn-at-home-2.0] Rework material 166 and publish a new version to look like the robot at tutorial 126

The material is at https://www.fllcasts.com/materials/741-cole-lego-mindstorms-ev3-robot-base-with-a-frame


[Learn-at-home-2.0] Repair the chains in the material 166.

The material is at https://www.fllcasts.com/materials/166-wro-robot-with-chains-for-pingpong/


[Learn-at-home-2.0] Two things to be fixed for material 680 mantissa

Fixed the building instructions of the Mantissa robot! https://www.fllcasts.com/materials/680-mantissa-a-lego-mindstorms-ev3-mantis-robot


[VEX-Competition-2.0] Create a VEX IQ Course for developing a driver skills.

The FLLCasts Certified VEX IQ Driver - Class R1 is developed in English. It still needs reworking some of the images and the videos.


[VEX-Competition-2.0] Picture fields on the course description page for Class R1

The leaderboard is included in the corresponding tutorials: * Level 1 *Level 2 *Level 3 And they are referred in the description of the course.


[VEX-Competition-2.0] "Class R1" - Build first level with a structure that could be replicated

First level and the whole course are created and available at

https://www.fllcasts.com/courses/82-vex-iq-driving-course

FLLCasts VEX IQ Driver Picture


Platform

[Bug, Groups] Couldn't visit a deleted groups show page.

You can now visit the groups show page and recover the group from there.


[Bug, Subscription Access] Can not filter by paid

Fixed a bug where you couldn't filter tutorials on their index page using the filter button.


People can now regenerate the permalink of the program when on the edit page. They need to delete it so it is blank, then save it twice.


People can now regenerate the permalink of the course when on the edit page. They need to delete it so it is blank, then save it twice.


[Group] Remove the page refresh which occurs when the we filter the groups on the groups index page using the filtering buttons located above the groups sheet.

The groups index page no longer gets refreshed when we use the filtering buttons.


[Groups-1.0] Inform users on what is their username in the mail for reset the password - because they do not know

Users can now go and reset their passwords. They get the email and there it says what their username is. If they have two or more accounts with one email they have links for each account. It is in BG language too.


[Groups-1.0] Implement 'SoftDelete' for groups with users in them

Groups can no longer be fully deleted by users, instead they are shown by clicking the 'Deleted' filter located above the groups table.


[Groups-1.0] Move the End Date and complete group button into a section on the Group new page

Added End date to an own panel in the edit page of the group.


[Groups-1.0] Create a new section on the groups edit page that is like the MGE and Assigned Content that is called - Messages.

Added Messages as a separate own panel in the edit page of the group.


[Groups-1.0] Move the form for adding a new group user below the Add New Group User button

The button that gives you the fields with which you add group users is now anchored above them.


[Groups-1.0] Add help for Group Mandatory Field

Updated the 'Group Mandatory Student Information' helper information when creating a group.


[MGE-1.0] Support for Brothers and sisters

Users on the platform can have multiple accounts with the same email. The email is not unique, the username is. This is needed for brothers and sisters with the same parent email.


[MGE-1.0] Translate the whole MGE path

The Manual Group Enrollment path is translated and available at two languages. A third language could easily be added.

Check out at https://www.fllcasts.com/groups for English and https://www.fllcasts.com/bg/groups for bulgarian


[VEX-Competition-2.0, Content-Creation-2.0] When embedded do not show the programs of the materials and tutorials below the tutorials themselves

Currently when embedding a tutorial in a course section the materials referenced by the tutorial are not shown in the course section. If we want a material to be used in a course we should explicitly refer it into the course.


Pictures/Images/Renders

[Curribulum-1.0] Rebuild thumbnail of course section 730, to make it more suitable for students.

https://www.fllcasts.com/courses/80-a-robot-a-day-keeps-the-questions-awake-version-2-0-pre-release

Crane


[Curribulum-1.0] Rebuild thumbnail of course section 485, to make it more suitable for students.

https://fllcasts.com/courses/27-level-c2-cooperation-robotics-with-lego

Cooperation-Truck-And-Crane


[Curribulum-1.0] Rebuild thumbnail of course section 734, to make it more suitable for students.

https://www.fllcasts.com/courses/80-a-robot-a-day-keeps-the-questions-awake-version-2-0-pre-release

Windmill


[Curriculum 1.0, Picture] Create picture for introduction in Lesson 1 level D2

https://www.fllcasts.com/bg/nonreusable_contents/391-introducti

Fisherman


[Curriculum-1.0] Add vecteezy picture to 3.5 lesson 1 Tol tutorial

https://fllcasts.com/bg/tutorials/1190-tol-systems?ref=5118

Toll-Booth-Worker-Fllcasts


[Curriculum-1.0] Add vecteezy picture to 3.5 lesson 1 intro section

https://fllcasts.com/bg/nonreusable_contents/396-intro

Toll-Booth-On-Highway-Fllcasts


[Curriculum-1.0] Update thumbnail of radarford robot 633

https://fllcasts.com/bg/materials/633-radarford-the-traffic-police-officer-speed-radar-robot-built-with-lego-mindstorms-ev3?ref=5091

LEGO-Mindstorms-Ev3-Radarford-The-Traffic-Police-Officer-Robot-Fllcasts-With-Cables-April


[Curriculum-1.0] Add video to 3.5 lesson 1 MyBlock output tutorial

Tutorial 1194 Output Parameter has videos embedded in the description.


[Curriculum-1.0] Add vecteezy picture to 3.5 lesson 1 Speed Control tutorial

https://fllcasts.com/bg/tutorials/1191-car-surfing

Police-Officer-Helping-Fllcasts


[Curriculum-1.0, Pictures] Add thumbnail to Dinorex robot instructions 734

https://www.fllcasts.com/materials/734-dinosaur#is-js-viewer

Dinosaur


[Curriculum-1.0, Pictures] Update the "MotoCar Bot - LEGO Mindstorms Robot that is kind of like a forklift" thumbnail. 365

https://fllcasts.com/materials/365-motocar-bot-lego-mindstorms-robot-that-is-kind-of-like-a-forklift

MotoCar


[Curriculum-1.0, Thumbnail] Create thumbnail for material 744

https://www.fllcasts.com/bg/materials/744-remilo-lego-mindstorms-ev3-boat-robot

Boat


[Curriculum-1.0, Thumbnail] Create thumbnail for material 747

A thumbnail is created for the Gen - LEGO Mindstorms EV3 pedalo robot Gen - LEGO Mindstorms EV3 pedalo robot Thumbnail


[Curriculum-2.0, Pictures] Add picture from vecteezy to Sisyphus tutorial

https://www.fllcasts.com/tutorials/1187-sisyphus

Man-Pushing-Useless-Work-Fllcasts


[Curriculum-2.0, Pictures] Add picture from vecteezy to Monster Inside the Black Box tutorial

https://www.fllcasts.com/tutorials/1188-monster-inside-the-black-box

Zombie-Hand-In-Halloween-Landscape-Fllcasts


[Learn-at-home-2.0,Thumbnail] Create thumbnail for material 726

https://www.fllcasts.com/materials/726-goalkeeper

Goalkeeper


[Thumbnail] Create thumbnail for the Sebastian robot 746

https://www.fllcasts.com/materials/746-crabbery-a-crab-robot-built-with-lego-mindstorms-ev3

Crab


[Thumbnail, Learn-at-home-2.0] Picture for material 741

http://fllcasts.com/materials/741-cole-lego-mindstorms-ev3-robot-base-with-a-frame

Cole


[VEX-Competitions-2.0, Pictures] Think whether to rework the thumbnails of the course sections in FLLCasts Certified VEX IQ Driver - Class R1.

https://www.fllcasts.com/courses/82

R1L1

R1L2

R1L3