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Devoxx4Kids Mindstorms Workshop EN

The document describes how to build and program a LEGO Mindstorms robot using EV3 components like sensors, motors and bricks. It provides instructions over multiple missions to make the robot move, detect obstacles, and hunt intruders by detecting obstacles, playing sounds and potentially shooting balls if the obstacle remains.

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Devoxx4Kids Mindstorms Workshop EN

The document describes how to build and program a LEGO Mindstorms robot using EV3 components like sensors, motors and bricks. It provides instructions over multiple missions to make the robot move, detect obstacles, and hunt intruders by detecting obstacles, playing sounds and potentially shooting balls if the obstacle remains.

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Lego

Mindstorms
What is your robot made of ?
● An EV3 brick on which sensors and motors are
plugged. We will build our programs on the
computer, and then upload them into this brick.

● 2 large motors to drive the robot.


What is your robot made of ?

● 1 medium motor for other mechanisms.

● 1 infrared sensor to detect objects and measure


the distance to them.
How to program it ?
● We will give instructions to the robot by adding
graphical blocks one to each other. We could
make the robot :
● move around,
● wait,
● play a sound,
● display pictures, ...
Mission #1 : Make an half turn
Goal : The robot moves forwards, makes a 180-degree turn and moves
forwards again to came back at the same position as the beginning.
1
1. Add a new program

2. Place a Move Steering block after the start block


3. Change the mode to On for Rotations
4. Change the rotation number by 5
3 4
Mission #1 : Make an half turn
5. Place a Move Steering block after the previous one
6. Change the mode to On for degrees
7. Change the steering value by -100
8. Change the degrees value by 1000

6 7 8
Mission #1 : Make an half turn
9. Place a Move Steering block after the previous one
10. Change the mode to On for Rotations
11. Change the rotation number by 5

10 11
Mission #1 : Make an half turn
12. Connect your EV3 Brick.

13. Download the program

13

14. Run the program (Folder icon > TRACK3R > Program2)
Mission #2 : Detect an obstacle
Goal : The robot moves around continuously. If it detects something at a
certain distance, it stops and plays a sound. If not, it continues to move around.

1. Add the infrared sensor in front of the EV3 Brick and plug
it to the port 4
2
2. Add a new program
Mission #2 : Detect an obstacle
3. Place a Loop block after the
start block

4. Place a Switch block inside the loop block.

5. Change the mode to Infrared sensor > Compare


5 6
> Proximity

6. Change the threshold value by 30


Mission #2 : Detect an obstacle
7. Place a Move Steering block inside the True case of the
switch block.

8. Change the mode to Off


8

9. Place a Sound block after the move steering block 10

10. Select the Error alarm sound (menu LEGO sound files
> Informations )
Mission #2 : Detect an obstacle
11. Place a Move Steering block inside the False case of
the switch block.

12. Change the mode to On

13. Change the power value by -75

12 13
Mission #2 : Detect an obstacle
14. Connect your EV3 Brick.

15. Download the program

15

16. Run the program (Folder icon > TRACK3R > Program2)
Mission #3 : Hunt the intruders !
Goal : The robot moves around continuously. If it detects something at a
certain distance, it stops, plays a sound alert and waits for 3 seconds. If the
obstacle has not move after 3 seconds, the robot shoots a ball.

1. Add the shoot mechanism on the medium motor

2. Pick up the previous program


Mission #3 : Hunt the intruders !
3. Place a Wait block inside the True case of the switch block

4. Change the seconds value by 3

4
Mission #3 : Hunt the intruders !
5. Place a Switch block inside the True case of the
switch block

6. Change the mode to Infrared sensor > Compare


> Proximity

7. Change the threshold value by 30


6 7
Mission #3 : Hunt the intruders !
8. Place a Move Steering block inside the True case of the switch block.

9. Change the mode to On for Degrees

10. Change the direction by -100

11. Change the degrees by 1000

9 10 11
Mission #3 : Hunt the intruders !
12. Place a Medium Motor block inside the True case of the switch block.

13. Change the mode to On for Rotations

14. Change the rotations number by 3

13 14
Mission #3 : Hunt the intruders !
15. Connect your EV3 Brick.

16. Download the program

16

17. Run the program (Folder icon > TRACK3R > Program2)
Up to you !
Add sounds and pictures to make your robot
alive :
● to make the robot play a sound, add a
Sound block and select the sound
● to display pictures on the EV3 brick, place a
Display block and select the picture

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