Mindstorms: Level 3

Mindstorms: Level 3 book cover — Century Skills InnovatIon LIbrary 21st Mindstorms Level 3 UNOFFICIAL GUIDES (cid:35)(cid:40)(cid:37)(cid:50)(cid:50)(cid:57)(cid:0)(cid:44)(cid:33)(cid:43)(cid:37)(cid:0)(cid:48)(cid:53)(cid:34)(cid:44)(cid:41)(cid:51)(cid:40)(cid:41)(cid:46)(cid:39)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:115)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:33)(cid:46)(cid:46)(cid:0)(cid:33)(cid:50)(cid:34)(cid:47)(cid:50)(cid:12)(cid:0)(cid:45)(cid:41)(cid:35)(cid:40)(cid:41)(cid:39)(cid:33)(cid:46)by Rena Hixon

Mindstorms: Level 3 — page 1 — (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 Understanding Programming Concepts I f you’re reading this book you probably already know about some of the incredible things you can do with Lego Mindstorms You may have even built some Mindstorms robots yourself Hopefully you know how the different sensors are used how to create simple programs and how to use the EV3 programmable brick If not you should start by reading Unofficial Guides Mindstorms Level 1 and Level 2 Then come back to this book once you’re ready The EV3 software is extremely powerful It can be used to create robots far more complex than the ones we made in previous books This book will focus on creating programs that will allow your robots to do more than one thing at a time For example in the previous books we made a robot that could follow a line and a robot that would stop before running into walls But we can also write a program that tells a 4

Mindstorms: Level 3 — page 2 — MINDSTORMS Level 3 robot how to do both of those things In addition we will look at some icons in the EV3 software that you can use to accomplish some more complex things with your robot Let’s start by reviewing the basics of Mindstorms programming We will use the same robot we built for the activities in Level 1 and Level 2 The programming skills you learn from Mindstorms could help you learn a variety of other programming languages 5

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