Video tutorials
Every teacher/instructor can conduct classes with students using these resources. You need to motivate and organize the students. We provide the technical theory, tasks, instructions, programs and everything needed.
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Teacher's Note: Solving the tasks for the motorcycle
The goal of this lesson is for students to have fun with a new robot.
- #1446
- 29 Aug 2019
Teacher's Note: Solving the tasks for the robo car
The goal of this lesson is to introduce students to the setting for measuring the reflected light of the color sensor and to recall how to follow a line.
- #1439
- 19 Aug 2019
Teacher's Notes - How is the "Third Wheels and Square" class conducted
Third wheel experiments, changes in the robot, students could choose the task all by themselves. Make sure you have a lot of fun and students complete their tasks. Here is what you should know when conducting this class.
- #1375
- 28 Jun 2019
Inertia 101
There are two types of inertia to familiarize you with. You know of one intuitively, the other one is more obscure. Both must be considered when building your own robots, especially in the future for competitions.
- #901
- 17 Dec 2018
More about ultrasonic soundwaves
As the name indicates, ultrasonic sensors measure distance by using ultrasonic waves. One of the “eyes” on the sensor head is the transmitter and emits an ultrasonic wave and the other “eye” is the receiver which receives the wave reflected back from the target.
- #944
- 17 Aug 2018
How to use LEGO Mindstorms Clutch
A clutch is a mechanical device that is used for engaging or disengaging power transmission. Now we will see how we can make such a device using LEGO.
- #908
- 30 Jul 2018
Learn how to work with tasks
Your first task follows, and we will explain how to use tasks.
- #851
- 26 Apr 2018
Overview of the whole process of connecting the electronics in our Smart Car
We are about to connect the whole car with the lights and motors to the controller. Let's recap to know what is ahead of us, what would the process be and what is the end result of the next couple of sections when at the end we have a car controlled by the phone
- #808
- 23 Mar 2018
Understanding the batteries holder and where is the Plus and Minus
The power in the car comes from the batteries. The batteries are in a batteries holder. About 5 of them. Two cables are connected to the batteries holder. It is very important to identify which of those cables is the plus and which is the minus.
- #753
- 23 Feb 2018
Introducing pins layout, pins numbers and pins meaning on Raspberry Pi
We would start connecting a lot of things to the Raspberry Pi. It will be good if we could have some way of referring to the pins on the Raspberry Pi. For example like Pin 5 or Pin 26. Luckily there is such a way.
- #751
- 23 Feb 2018
Types of breadboard jumper cables in the set for the Perfect Course.
In the set for the Perfect Course, you have 3 different type of cables. They are called Breadboard Jumper Cables. We would need to use them to extend the default cables on the car and to connect the car components to our new controller
- #746
- 23 Feb 2018
Stripping cables with a lighter
We need to extend the cables to be able to connect them to our Raspberry PI. We must also add new connectors at the end of the cables.
- #744
- 23 Feb 2018
What is a motor driver and why do we need it with the Raspberry Pi
Every electronics tutorial, book or course about Raspberry Pi or Arduino will use a motor driver. Very few of the courses will actually explain why do you need a Motor Driver, what is it for?
- #688
- 23 Feb 2018
Name of the parts in a opened Remote Control car
Give it a name and you will have power over it. I learned this from an MIT professor. So let's give the part of the car names. Then we could refer to them. Talk to them. Change them. Do all kinds of things with them. Give it a name and you will have power over it.
- #684
- 20 Feb 2018
Opening the RC Remote Control Car
The course is designed to be used with almost every remote controlled car. The process of opening the car will be different for different cars but there are basic principles that you could follow.
- #683
- 20 Feb 2018
Why do we need an SD card for the Raspberry Pi.
With the set for the course, you also have an SD card. It is important that you understand why and how is the SD Card is used.
- #720
- 12 Feb 2018
Why start with the phone set up in the Perfect STEM Course
Yes, we know. Starting with the phone when you have a toy car and a Raspberry Pi might seem strange, but this is why we do it.
- #712
- 01 Feb 2018
Description of the perfect STEM Course package and its contents.
In the course, we are going to use the following components and hardware elements. It is important to know their names and what are they used for.
- #674
- 01 Feb 2018
Tetrix FTC. How to attach the ball storing pipe to the robot
Let's attach the ball storing pipe to the FTC robot. In previous tutorials, I've shown you the complete robot, but for this, I've removed the pipe and will show you how to attach it.
- #578
- 02 Jul 2017
Tetrix FTC. Cut a pipe with an opening with specific shape. User a template
Take the hacksaw, the drill and let's cut the pipe.
- #581
- 28 Jun 2017
Tetrix FTC. How to cut and prepare a pipe to store balls. Length and cap
In this robotics tutorial, we would discuss the length of the pipe and its dimensions. These are general considerations for every container on a FIRST Technical Challenge competition.
- #575
- 20 Jun 2017
Tetrix FTC. Tools and example for cutting a pipe
This robotics tutorial is about the different tools that you could use to collect the balls in a pipe on a FIRST Technical Challenge competition.
- #577
- 16 Jun 2017
Tetrix FTC. How to cut and prepare a pipe to store balls. Shape of the pipe
The robotics tutorial is about the shape of the pipe its advantages and disadvantages.
- #574
- 08 Jun 2017