LEGO MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor Programming for competition with Word Blocks

To successfully advance at competitions we need to understand two concepts - how to reliably and consistently navigate the field and position the robot exactly where we need it to be on every run, and how to build attachments that would accomplish a mission model once we have reached it. This course is focused on the first part. The second part is the whole FLLCasts platform, but start at FIRST LEGO League with LEGO Mindstorms Robot Inventor. "Challenge" competition for 9-16 years old.

The goal of this course is to help you learn to program LEGO Robots using Scratch and make them behave consistently and reliably during competitions. As a language we use LEGO MINDSTORMS App Word Blocks which is based on Scratch. We look at a lot of concepts that could be used for FIRST LEGO League and World Robot Olympiad competitions - for example, how to follow a line fast, slow, in a smooth way, with 5 states. Also, how to align to lines, how to do double align, how to keep a straight line with a motion sensor.

Unfortunately, LEGO discontinued the robot series during the making of this course which is why it's kind of shortish. You could use the SPIKE Prime course for a more in-depth analysis.

Each lesson consists of a

Tutorial - explaining the behavior of the robot and its program
Robot building instructions - to build the correct robot
Program that you can download and directly run
10 runs tutorials demonstrating how consistent and reliable the program is
A task to accomplish

With this structure it is easy to follow the flow and replicate the tutorials and the programs on your end. The course is suitable both for pre-season preparation where you could go through all the lessons one by one or as an in-season reference guide were you can jump specifically to the sections that you need.

LEGO MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor

Lessons

Moving on the field without sensors

Moving slow vs Moving fast

Accelerate and Decelerate to improve accuracy

Moving without sensors - long path

Motion sensor - move forward

You must begin the course in order to gain full access to it.

By beginning the couse you would have access to the complete videos, tasks, evaluations and feedback.