Robocup Junior Australia 2015 WA State Championships
I am a bit late getting this blog post written, but I have been extremely busy with the release of my first commerical product, GP Power Tools, as well as other development work that was pushed back to...
View ArticleRobocup Junior Australia 2015 National Championships
While David was away in the USA and Mexico, I got to accompany Rohan to the RoboCup Junior Australia 2015 National Championships on 26th and 27th September 2015. You may know from past blogs that...
View ArticleRobocup Junior Australia Metro Events 2017
The third and final reason for the slow down in blog articles over the last couple of months has been my volunteer work for Robotics. You might remember that when my two son’s were still at school, I...
View ArticleWelcome to the Robotics Portal
I am pleased to announce the creation of the Robotics Portal on the Winthrop Development Consultants blog site. As I publish more articles related to robotics and development using the EV3 Basic...
View Article#Robotics Programming a Line Following Robot – Part 1
Welcome to my first article in a series on robot design and programming techniques. I thought I would start with an article discussing how to make a robot follow a line with a single sensor. I will be...
View Article#Robotics Programming a Line Following Robot – Part 2
Here is my second article in a series on robot design and programming techniques. In this article I will be discussing how to make a robot follow a line with two sensors. I will be discussing some of...
View Article#Robotics Designing and Building a Line Following Robot
This is my third article in a series on robot design and programming techniques. In this article I will be discussing how to design a line following robot including the positioning of the sensors....
View Article#Robotics Using the EV3 Colour Sensor in RGB mode
This fourth article covers a really cool trick for working with the EV3 colour sensor. It resolves a couple of issues that I discovered when I first started working with Lego Mindstorms EV3. The...
View Article#EV3Basic Using the Mindsensors Sensor Multiplexer with EV3 Basic
Previously on this blog, I have mentioned that I mentor for the All Saints’ College Robotics club and volunteer on the Robocup Junior West Australian Committee. Combining my childhood love of Lego with...
View Article#EV3Basic Using the Mindsensors Motor Multiplexer with EV3 Basic
As discussed before, I am continuing to mentor for the All Saints’ College Robotics club, even though both my sons are now at university. I am also the Rescue Advisor on the Robocup Junior West...
View Article#EV3Basic Using the Mindsensors Heat Sensor and Charmed Labs PixyCam with EV3...
Continuing my series about robotics and using non Lego devices with EV3 Basic, here is an article which demonstrates how to use a camera and heat sensor. The Robocup Junior Australia competition has...
View Article#EV3Basic Great news: EV3 Basic 1.2 now available
Great news today, Reinhard Grafl has released EV3 Basic 1.2. This update adds some new functionality and also fixes some known issues. It also brings the numbering in line with the Small Basic...
View ArticleRobocup Junior WA 2018 Rescue Line Workshop
On the 15th March 2018, the Robocup Junior WA Committee ran a Rescue Line Workshop at All Saints’ College. The workshop was a great success with a large turnout who enjoyed the session and learnt the...
View Article#Robotics Programming a Self Calibrating Line Following Robot
It has been a while since I wrote an article for my robotics portal, so I thought I would write about a topic I have been mentoring a student recently. This concept for this article is how to create a...
View Article#Robotics Handling intersection shortcut markers
The Robocup Junior WA State Competition for 2019 is just around the corner, so I thought I would get back to writing some more of the blogs in this series. So far we have concentrated on building and...
View Article#Robotics Handling water tower or obstacles
Keeping the momentum going, here is the next article in this series to help you prepare of the Robocup Junior Australia competition. Your robot should now be able to line follow and navigate...
View Article#Robotics Finding objects with an Ultrasonic sensor
This is almost the final article explaining the techniques to handle the challenges your robot will face during the line rescue division of Robocup Junior Australia competition. Your robot should now...
View Article#Robotics Line Rescue Completing the rescue
The previous article in this series covered how to find the victim in the rescue zone for the Robocup Junior Australia Line Rescue challenge: #Robotics Finding objects with an Ultrasonic sensor This...
View Article#Robotics Line Rescue Additional Considerations
Just when I thought I had finished the series of articles explaining the techniques need to complete the Robocup Junior Australia Line Rescue Challenge, I realised that there were some additional...
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#MVPBuzz Why I Mentor Robotics
OK, I admit it…. I am a geek. I love gadgets and technology especially when they are fun to play with. I always have, even before I played with my neighbour’s Sinclair ZX-80 computer when I still lived...
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