{"id":11050,"date":"2013-01-01T00:26:38","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T13:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/?p=11050"},"modified":"2022-07-31T16:08:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T06:08:30","slug":"get-started-with-ev3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/get-started-with-ev3\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Started with EV3"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11107\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11107\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/45544-LEGO-MINDSTORMS-Education-EV3-Core-Set.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11107\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11107 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/45544-LEGO-MINDSTORMS-Education-EV3-Core-Set-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"45544-LEGO-MINDSTORMS-Education-EV3-Core-Set\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/45544-LEGO-MINDSTORMS-Education-EV3-Core-Set-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/45544-LEGO-MINDSTORMS-Education-EV3-Core-Set-768x572.jpg 768w, http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/45544-LEGO-MINDSTORMS-Education-EV3-Core-Set-1024x763.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/45544-LEGO-MINDSTORMS-Education-EV3-Core-Set-600x447.jpg 600w, http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/45544-LEGO-MINDSTORMS-Education-EV3-Core-Set.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">EV3 Education Core Set (45544)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 is the third version of LEGO&#8217;s MINDSTORMS robotics platform. It was launched in September 2013, and follows the RCX (1998) and the NXT (2006).<\/p>\n<p>The MINDSTORMS EV3 kit includes a programmable brick (also known as the EV3 brick), motors, sensors, and LEGO Technic parts.\u00a0There are two versions of the kit: the Education EV3 Core Set (45544) that is aimed at schools, and the retail version, MINDSTORMS EV3 (31313), that is aimed at the home market. See <a href=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/which-lego-kit\/\">Which LEGO kit?<\/a> for a description of the differences between the two kits and a comparison to the NXT kit.<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of options for programming the EV3. The icon-based MINDSTORMS EV3 software\u00a0is available\u00a0in education and retail versions and is free to download. The education version can be downloaded <a href=\"https:\/\/education.lego.com\/en-us\/educationdownloads\/downloads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>. The EV3 can be programmed in other languages as well, including <a href=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/platform\/labview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LabVIEW<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robotc.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ROBOTC<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/lejos.sourceforge.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LeJOS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some additional resources to help you get started with the EV3:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>EV3 car building plans: <a title=\"harvester\" href=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/the-harvester-a-quick-ev3-robot-build\/\">Harvester<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"EV3 tutorials: By students, for students\" href=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/ev3-tutorials-by-students-for-students\/\">EV3 tutorials: by students, for students<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"EV3 books\" href=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/ev3-books\/\">EV3 books<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Browse <a href=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/platform\/ev3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">all EV3 posts<\/a> on this site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 is the third version of LEGO&#8217;s MINDSTORMS robotics platform. It was launched in September 2013, and follows the RCX (1998) and the NXT (2006). The MINDSTORMS EV3 kit includes a programmable brick (also known as the EV3 brick), motors, sensors, and LEGO Technic parts.\u00a0There are two versions of the kit: the Education [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":11298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11050"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14372,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11050\/revisions\/14372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}