(cid:53)(cid:46)(cid:47)(cid:38)(cid:38)(cid:41)(cid:35)(cid:41)(cid:33)(cid:44)(cid:0) GUIDES Chapter 1 What Is Lego (cid:45)(cid:73)(cid:78)(cid:68)(cid:83)(cid:84)(cid:79)(cid:82)(cid:77)(cid:83)(cid:31) H ave you ever wanted to bring your Lego creations to life Or to build a robot that can walk Wouldn’t it be incredible for that Lego truck you built to drive around on its own With the help of Lego Mindstorms you can make these ideas and many others a reality You can build amazing things using Mindstorms 4
MINDSTORMS Level 1 An expert builder shows off some of the many robots that can be created using a Mindstorms EV3 kit A Mindstorms kit comes with motors sen sors and a programmable computer These can be combined with standard Lego pieces to build robots that sense their environment and react to it This means Mindstorms robots can follow set paths or even travel on their own while avoiding objects The best part of these projects is that they are easily accomplished once you learn how to work with the Mindstorms system There have been three versions of Lego Mindstorms released so far With each one creators have made changes and improvements to the earlier versions The biggest difference between the 5