The Abingdonian 2019

13 www.abingdon.org.uk Michaelmas Term Lego Mindstorms Club The simple lego brick. There’s not much you can do with it - build with it, play with it, step on it - but there may be more to the plastic brick then you originally thought there was. Lego Mindstorms Club gives students the opportunity to not only build amazing robots but programme them using simple easy to use software as well. There are many robot designs to choose from such as the humanoid EV3STORM or the robot scorpion SPIK3R. You can build courses and test your robot’s strength and abilities with the remote controller, but not all robots need to move. You can build the Lego representation of the original Wachem game and instruments like guitars and pianos. Programming skills could come in useful during later life, so why not learn them now? Lego mindstorms has a great website to produce easy codes and helps you get to grips with how to make your own later on. Once you have the codes all you need to do is to build a robot of your own or from the book. Lego Mindstorms gives instructions on how to make certain robots, but if you feel ready you could try building your own design of bot that can solve a rubiks cube in ten seconds or pick up water bottles and move them to you - the possibilities of robot design are endless. If you have an interest in Lego Mindstorms then come to B311 on Tuesday afternoon to try your hand at the art of Lego programming. You can build your own future at Lego Mindstorms! Leland Ebner, 2SJC