Geek Gifts 2010: LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0
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The "EV" designation refers to the "evolution" of the Mindstorms product line. It was officially announced on January 4, and was released in stores on September 1, The education edition was released on August 1, It comes with the plans to build 5 different robots: Lego has also released instructions online to build 12 additional projects: However it can also be programmed on the actual robot and saved.
The EV3 Home set consists of: An expansion set for the Educational Core Set, which can be bought separately, contains Lego elements.
However, the expansion set and the educational set combined do not contain enough components necessary to build most robots of the retail set. This contrasts with the NXT; the educational set combined with the resource set could build any of the retail designs. The EV3 educational set was released a month earlier than the retail set, on August 1, Robots that can be built with the expansion set are the Tank Bot, the Znap, the Stair Climber, the Elephant and a remote control.
Another robot that can be built with a pair of core set and an expansion set is the Spinner Factory. It can boot an alternative operating system from a microSD card, which makes it possible to run ev3deva Lego mindstorms nxt 2.0 color sorter program download Linux -based operating system.
The EV3 brick cannot be programmed with the standard NXT software, but some third party software supports both systems. On the EV3 AM platform, it is possible with a small hack to double lego mindstorms nxt 2.0 color sorter program download encoder's resolution. By enabling edge triggered interrupts on the encoder B line called direction line by Legoit is possible to have increments per turn instead of This enhancement allows for smoother rotation at low speed and better position control.
The modified firmware implementing this modification is called EV3. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lego portal Robotics portal. Retrieved 1 October However not all software features are supported by the NXT intelligent Brick.
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