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Learning Lego Mindstorms EV3

Learning Lego Mindstorms EV3

By : Gary Garber
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Learning Lego Mindstorms EV3

Learning Lego Mindstorms EV3

4.1 (14)
By: Gary Garber
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Overview of this book

This book is for the hobbyists, builders, and programmers who want to build and control their very own robots beyond the capabilities provided with the LEGO EV3 kit. You will need the LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 kit for this book. The book is compatible with both the Home Edition and the Educational Edition of the kit. You should already have a rudimentary knowledge of general programming concepts and will need to have gone through the basic introductory material provided by the official LEGO EV3 tutorials.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. Engineering Notebook
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1. Engineering Notebook
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The engineering design process
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Content Editor features
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New pages and page actions
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Computer-aided Design and building instructions
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Commenting on your code
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Summary
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2. Mechanical Design
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2. Mechanical Design
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Mechanical advantage
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Motors
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Large motors and gears
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Writing a program
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Bevel gears at right angles
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Worm gear
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Using wires and parallel threads
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Summary
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3. Drive Train and Chassis
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3. Drive Train and Chassis
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Chassis
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Skid-bot with the Retail kit
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Caster-bot with the Educational kit
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Tread-bot with the Retail kit
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Tread-bot with the Educational kit
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Programming the robot to move forward
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Summary
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4. Sensors and Control
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4. Sensors and Control
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Using sensors
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Programming blocks
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LEGO EV3 sensors
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Third-party sensors
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5. Interacting with EV3
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5. Interacting with EV3
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Push buttons
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IR remote buttons
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Bluetooth control
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Smart device control
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Wi-Fi control
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6. Output from EV3
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6. Output from EV3
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Display
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Image Editor
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Display data
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Brick lights
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Legacy NXT/RCX lights
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Sound
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Music
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7. Advanced Programming
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7. Advanced Programming
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Loop and the Motor Rotation sensors
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Loop and the Gyro Sensor
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Switch or two-level controller
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Three-level controller
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Subroutines or My Blocks
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Arrays
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8. Advanced Programming and Control
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8. Advanced Programming and Control
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Distance controller
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Infrared versus Ultrasonic
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Proportional algorithm
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Line following using the Color Sensor
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Setpoint for line tracking
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Two-level or bang-bang controller
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Proportional line follower
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PID controller
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Gyro Sensor
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IR sensor navigation and beacon tracking
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Tracking a circle
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Triangulation
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Summary
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9. Experiment Software and Data Logging
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9. Experiment Software and Data Logging
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Data logging software
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Improving dead reckoning
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Analyzing gain constants
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Graphical programming
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Other bang-bang controllers
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Summary
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10. Other Programming Languages
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10. Other Programming Languages
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LabVIEW
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RobotC
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11. Communication between Robots
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11. Communication between Robots
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Enabling communication
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Messaging
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12. Advanced Robot – Gyro Boy
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12. Advanced Robot – Gyro Boy
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Concept of a balancing robot
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The Gyro Boy model
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Programming bugbears
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The main program
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The control program
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The RST My Block
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The gOS My Block
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The GT My Block
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The GG My Block
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The GM My Block
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The EQ My Block
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The cntrl My Block
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The CHK My Block
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Index
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Index

Chapter 1. Engineering Notebook

As described by LEGO, the EV3 MINDSTORMS software Content Editor is a digital workbook into which you can enter text, images, sound, and videos. There are a lot of great features that are described in brief by LEGO in the EV3 software help menus. In this chapter, we will look at the following topics:

  • The engineering design process
  • Advanced features of the Content Editor
  • How to add images into the Content Editor
  • How to add pages and page actions
  • Computer Aided Design and adding building instructions
  • How to add comments into your programs
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Tech Concepts
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Programming languages
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