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How should an instructor use this course when working with students and a group of students in school

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Overview of what is going to happen in module 3

There are a few things that you should be careful about when building from instructions .

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Using the rack depends on the experience of the team. Based on this a different number of gear wheels and racks would be used.

Let's review the LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Intelligent Brick

The EV3 brick is the main computer of your LEGO robot and it has a display, a few buttons and various ports.

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.

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