The LEGO EV3, it´s a robotic paack for making your own robot and programming it for make however you want. This is the third version of LEGO Mindstorm:
- LEGO Mindstorm RCX: The first version was implemented in the market in 1998 and it took a few sensors and an electric engine.
- LEGO Mindstorm NXT: The second version was launched a few years later and it took more sensors and two more electric engines. IT can be connected to smartphones, computers or other gadgets by bluethoot.
- LEGO Mindstorm EV3: This is the last version of the LEGO robotic kit. It has more or less the same sensors and enginees that the NXT, however, the programming program and the robot interface has been improved. And it has more connections ad ports.
The EV3 has various versions with diferent pieces for making diferent robots like the SPIK3R, which looks like a scorpion and can shoot balls and grip objets; and the R3EPTAR, designed for avoid obstacles. However, all the different versions come with lots of common pieces and can do more or less the same things. An example is this color classifier that some frieds and me made last winter. It had a little fail but, in general, it worked well:
Apart from the pre-designed robots, you can desing, set and program your own robot, and this is the most interesting feature of the LEGO Mindstorms. It comes with hundreds of pieces so, you can desingn your robot and give it thousands of shapes. It comes with various different sensors (ultrasonic, touchpad, infrared, microphone...) , for adapt your robot to its "habitat" and it has a very good software to program your cration, which can be understood by everyone.
It has a prize of 400 euros and the licenses have to be bought too. Apart from that its a very good tool for schools.
I personally think that in the future, robots will be as popular and common as smartphones are now and that there will be robots whose work is shop assistant or waiter and, for sure, they are going to to our lives easier.
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