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Time to lift the robot. The first approach is by using the 40 teeth gear wheels that come with the LEGO Mindstorms EV3 and NXT robotics sets. 

Where should you lift the robot? Especially if you don`t have the mission model that we are using

Note for the teacher on how to organize the class to use different robot base constructions to accomplish the mission for lifting.

Build a similar mechanism to this one. Similar, but for your robot. This is the task for you. Try, give yourself half and hour or even an hour.

Build a robot base to use in the course. You can use the robot base provided by us or you can build one yourself. 

Do it yourself, fix the errors in the construction of the EasyBot

One of the very common problems with the LEGO Mindstorms and LEGO Technic Gear wheels is then a tooth is skipped. In this video, I would like us to discuss this challenge and how do we solve it.

We will cover the names and the basic usage of the parts in our typical robot.

How to organize the different robots and group of students when working on lifting the robot.

We will demonstrate the common mistakes students make when building a robot.

Overview of what is going to happen in module 3

When you build from instructions there are a few things that you should be careful about.

Connect the attachment to the box robot and find the correct number of rotations of the middle motor that would bring the robot up and forward and would attach it to the mission model.

When organizing this course, the behaviour expectations should be set at the very beginning of the course.

The challenge is to make the robot move back and forth with ever decreasing distance.

Unplug one of the cables and observe what the robot does.

Now that you have tried and solved a challenge involving a series of instructions, we would like to share with you a few best practices.

Remember the passive/active attachment separation that we are making at FLLCasts.com. This applies for all the attachments and in this Episode, we are looking at how to use a passive attachment.  

We will cover three ways to transfer your program from the computer to the robot.

Now we have to program the robot. The steps that we will cover are starting the software, writing a program and downloading it to the robot.

What a teacher must look out for, while students are building a robot from instructions.

Now we will create the first program in this course and we will make the robot move forward.

We will demonstrate how to connect the brick and the motors by using cables correctly and reliably.

How great is the great attachment for lifting that we built in this course? How many times can it lift the robot without making an error? How great are your attachments and how could you test them? - the answer is simple. Just try 10 times and they should work at least 9 of them as our attachment is.

When we, the teachers, make programs and projects, we give them descriptive names. Let's show you a way to put cool names on your programs.

It this episode we would present you with our attachment for lifting the robot. 

Before moving forward here is the simple task of building the mechanism and extending the legs. Extend the legs to fifteen LEGO units.