Students will build and program a LEGO car that uses gears to travel up a steep incline. Students will explore the use of gears to give their car more power as well as car design to increase the amount of friction between the wheels and the incline.

Students will build and program a LEGO fan to be controlled by the tilt sensor. Students will program the fan to have 3 settings: off, low and high. In doing so, they will explore the WeDo programming language. They will learn how to program with motor speeds, wait statements and loops.

Students will build and program a LEGO music box to be controlled by the motion or proximity sensor. Students will program the music box to make a LEGO person dance to music, using the motor and music blocks. In doing so, they will explore the WeDo programming language. They will learn how to progra...

Students will build and program a LEGO car that uses gears or sensors to travel quickly across a flat surface, but is also able to climb a steep hill. The settings of the cars can only be switched by a quick adjustment and not a new building component. Students can use gears to keep traction between...

I have a middle school student who has been building airplanes and spaceships out of Legos during our after school homework time. I would like to have him enter a Lego competition. Is there a listing of Lego competitions available?

How to build a snake robot with LEGO? Snakes can perform different kinds of locomotion. Lateral undulation is a type of locomotion characterized by a backward propagating flexural wave along the length of the animal's body. Essential for locomotion is that the friction in transversal direction is la...

Hello,

I am currently instructing a highschool summer program that utilizes the Lego Mindstorms RCX hardware and Robolab software. Several students are having an error transferring their programs to their RCX blocks. The error reads "No RCX Communication (0 bytes written on port 2)". ...

To get younger kids to stop building we have a "LEGO Hands-UP" - which means that you need to hold your hands in the air while directions are being given. Helps keep everyone's attention and the noise down.

This 3-4 period activity is intended to introduce students to the Basic Palette of NxT-G, and apply it to the emerging field of Sociable Robotics.

In this activity, students are introduced to the field of Sociable Robotics with a short video on the work of roboticist Cynthia Breazeal...

If anyone has any "Mindstorm" related links post them in the comments for people who are looking for links.

Here is mine:www.mindstormmaniac.blogspot.com