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Generations of Lego Mindstorms

A set of programmable robots based on Lego building bricks by the name of Mindstorms was unveiled in the 1990s. The set comes with an intelligent brick, some sensors, servo motors and some Lego parts. Ever since that, the three earliest generations of Mindstorms were born – The Robotics Invention System, NXT, and EV3. You …

VEXCode VR: Introduction to Loops

Types of Condition Selection If else condition loop When if else condition loop should be used? Situation that we need to consider external factor or arithmetic or logical conditionsSituation that have to consider different cases or selection of actions that response to several conditions Types of Loops For Loop with NumberRepeats code for 10 timesInfinity …

Why Monorails?

Before we look into the pros and cons of monorail. We will need to first understand its concept. Monorail is a moderate volume rail transit system with electric vehicles running on a track beam. There are 2 types of monorail such as straddle monorail and suspend type monorail. What makes monorail a special mode of …

Robot Commander App

Robot Commander is the official command app from LEGO® MINDSTORMS®. FREE to download on most smart devices (IOS and ANDROID) ; Robot Commander connects via Bluetooth® to the EV3 Intelligent Brick. This easy-to-use app allows you to interact with your very own EV3 robots without even connecting to a computer! That means you can play …

RVG World Championship 2021 (Lower Secondary)

We all know that there no physical competition due to the pandemic. Fortunately, robotic competitions will be held online. The RVG championship 2021 Junior Category will be competing a challenge call "El Interceptor". We will be using the virtual simulator, Virtual Robotics Toolkit to complete this challenge. There will be two challenges:Beginners Challenge - which …

WRO 2021: Regular Category (Lower Secondary)

Welcome to WRO 2021! This year’s theme is Power Bots-The Future of Energy. This year, junior category of the regular category will be competing in what’s called “Park & Charge” challenge. What’s so different this year is that everything is held online! We will be using the virtual simulator, Virtual Robotics Toolkit to complete this …

The Virtual Robotics Toolkit (VRT)

Due to the pandemic, schools are closed and our physical robotics classes cannot be conducted. Did we stop? No. We are indeed lucky that there is a software that simulates almost everything of the Lego Mindstorms robots. This article will briefly introduce you to Virtual Robotics Toolkit and explore some of it features. What is …

Introduction to VEXCode VR

How does VEXCode VR works? How VEXcode VR programming language works is that it represents a set of rules in which symbols represent actions. It follows a step-by-step instructions that the robot executes during operation. So, when programming the instructions, it needs to be written in order or else it might not be executing the …

LEGO MINDSTORMS ROBOT INVENTOR SET 51515

Around a year after Lego Education introduced LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Prime Set 51515 Robot Inventor to the world, a new generation of Lego Mindstorms product was announced in June 2020 which uses the same hub, sensors and motors that were introduced with the educational Spike Prime set earlier this year. Let us welcome the 4th generation …