Spring 2025

EW6: Wed 6:30-9:15AM

Ingersoll (IH) 3208

Suggested Text The LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Discovery Book: A Beginner's Guide to Building and Programming Robots Publisher: No Starch Press ISBN-10: 1593275323 ISBN-13: 978-1593275327 However there are tutorials that we will use online and a useful manual.

Please bring a USB Drive to save your work.

6 Units (consisting of: Intro, Construction, Locomotion, Sensing, Control, Teams): 

• 2 Lectures
• 1-2 labs
• 1-2 assessment assignments (HWs, quizzes, classroom demonstrations)

Grading = 6 Unit Materials (70%) + Final (30%)

Academic Integrity

The faculty and administration of Brooklyn College support an environment free from cheating and plagiarism. Each student is responsible for being aware of what constitutes cheating and plagiarism and for avoiding both. The complete text of the CUNY Academic Integrity Policy and the Brooklyn College procedure for policy implementation can be found at www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/bc/policies . If a faculty member suspects a violation of academic integrity and, upon investigation, confirms that violation, or if the student admits the violation, the faculty member MUST report the violation.

Center for Student Disability Services

In order to receive disability-related academic accommodations students must first be registered with the Center for Student Disability Services. Students who have a documented disability or suspect they may have a disability are invited to set up an appointment with the Director of the Center for Student Disability Services, Ms. Valerie Stewart-Lovell at 718-951-5538. If you have already registered with the Center for Student Disability Services, please provide your professor with the course accommodation form and discuss your specific accommodation with him/her.

Student Bereavement Policy:   http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/about/initiatives/policies/bereavement.php

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Useful Links:

• Software - PC or Mac
• User's Guide
• Mindstorms EV3 Help
• Learn to Program - Helpful
• Building Guide
• Interesting Resources
• Tutorials - Explains things very well
• Very Helpful Manual
• EV3 Lessons - Very interesting
• Lesson Plans
• EV3 Activites

The syllabus will update from time to time as the semester goes by. Please refer to the website for current status.

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Date	Unit	Class Work	Reading	Assignment	Labs	Lectures
2/5	A	Lecture Unit A (part 1) Teams and Equipment check-out Introduction to the Robot	Chapters 2-3		Build Movement Lab Port View	Unit A Intro
2/12 COLLEGE CLOSED
2/19	A	Screen, Motors, Sounds	Chapter 4 Helpful Readings: Moving Straight Turning Display Sounds		Practice doing some turns Pivot vs Spin Turns before doing the lab Obstacle Course	Unit A Notes Programming Info
2/26	B	Gears	Chapter 11		Gear's Lab	Unit B
3/5	B		Chapters 5 Helpful Readings Loops How Buttons Work	Read these pages: Wheels Robots Wheel Control Theory Tracked Robots Answer the following Questions on Blackboard	Loops Lab	Unit B Notes 2 Programming
3/6 Follows Wed Schedule	Online Simulators		Electrical
3/12	C	QUIZ #1 Know the following topics	Chapter 6 Sensors Wait, Repeat, Loops, Multitasking		Lab C Sensor Labs	Unit C Sensors How Motors Work
3/19	D		Chapter 17		Hand Controlled Graphics Game Lab based on the Hand Controlled Graphics	Building Games
3/26		Color & Infrared Sensors	Chapter 7-9		Color Labs Helpful Guides: Switch Color Sensor	Locomotion
4/2	D		Class on Chapter 14 pages: 210-221	Gloss over the manual to refresh yourself if you are having difficulties	Self Driving Car	Control
4/9	C		Chapters 15 & 16		Gold Detection Lab	Search & Rescue
4/23	E		Part A: 351-358		Bluetooth info do this first to get practice Using the hand controlled graphic lab, have one robot send the other robot the values from the infrared sensor to do the drawing.	Robot Teams
4/30	F	QUIZ #2 Know the following topics			Color Picker
5/7	F			Look over old final ask questions next class.	Build a Lift Forklift Lab
5/14				Robot Showcase Make a demo to show off your robot
5/21 Final 6pm-8pm Regular Classroom

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