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Robotics: Beginner: A Smart Brick?

This document provides instructions for programming an EV3 Brick to change colors, play sounds, and make facial expressions. It also provides examples of using programming blocks to control a Retail Rover robot, including making it move forward and backward, drive in a circle, and drive in a square pattern. The document guides the reader through connecting the brick, selecting programming blocks, and testing programs.

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Robotics: Beginner: A Smart Brick?

This document provides instructions for programming an EV3 Brick to change colors, play sounds, and make facial expressions. It also provides examples of using programming blocks to control a Retail Rover robot, including making it move forward and backward, drive in a circle, and drive in a square pattern. The document guides the reader through connecting the brick, selecting programming blocks, and testing programs.

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ROBOTICS: BEGINNER

A Smart Brick?
Let’s start by programming the EV3 Brick! We will use the Programmer App to make our brick change
color, play a sound, and make faces at us.

(1) Connect your EV3 Brick to the Programmer App


Launch the LEGO Education Programming App. Open a New Program from the Programming
App’s Lobby page.

Confused?
Tap here
for help

Tap the Brick Connect icon in the upper right hand corner. Follow the instructions to connect your EV3
Brick to you tablet.

[Tap “Ignore” if you are prompted to “Connect to Commander.”]


The following icons should appear in the upper right hand corner

Now you are ready to program!

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ROBOTICS: BEGINNER
(2) Make your brick change color!
Launch the LEGO Education Programming App.
Open a New Program from the Programming
App’s Lobby page. Drag the Brick Status Light
block from the green Action Blocks menu.

Make the color change last for 2 seconds. First drag the Wait Block from the yellow Flow Blocks menu.
Then adjust the time to 2 seconds.

Now run and test your program using the Run button in the upper right hand corner.
[Your brick should now flash yellow for 2 seconds.]

Experimentation!
 Use the Display and Sound block from the Action Menu to make your Brick show and sound off!

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ROBOTICS: BEGINNER
Dance, Robot, Dance!
We've got to start somewhere. In this project, we'll hook up a button to three lights. The yellow light will
stay on until the button is pressed. While the button is down, though, the two red lights will flash
instead.

Let’s Build a Robot


(1) Construct the Retail Rover using the Building Instructions handout.

Now, Make it Move


(2) Back and Forth
How could you use the Move Steering Action Block to make the robot rover move forward for 2
seconds, wait, and then backwards for 2 seconds, and stop?
[Hint: Set the power to negative to make your rover move in reverse.]

EX:

(3) Circle
How could you use the Move Steering Action Block to make your rover travel in a circle for 10 seconds?

EX:

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(4) Square
How could you use the Move Steering Action Block to make the robot rover go in a square?

EX:

Experimentation!
 Use the Loop Block in the Flow Blocks menu to make the robot drive the shape of a square, OR drive
in a circle forever!

Hint: Try using these!

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