This is my simple EV3 robot design. It is very quick to build, uses very few pieces and has interchangeable attachments. This makes it very useful in a classroom setting. My Classroom Resource book – Classroom Activities for the Busy Teacher: EV3 utlisies it throughout all the lessons.
If you do end up using this design in class, please let me know, I love to hear how far and wide throughout the world my design travels 🙂
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Huge thanks to Bill Bourn for taking this design and importing it into LEGO Digitial Designer. Download the .lxf file here -> Kee_s Riley Rover bot EV3 with gyro over drive axle.lxf
If you have the EV 3 Home Kit (31313), then Joe Meno has adapted the RileyRover into the RetailRover which utlisies the parts of the EV3 Home Kit. Download it here
Download the full PDF Building Instructions for the RileyRover Attachments
Hi Damien,
I have had three 2 hour sessions so far with my 4-H LegoBotics Spin Club utilizing your "Classroom Activities for the Busy Teacher:EV3" with great enthusiasm & success! Thank you so much for creating such a fine introductory program The kids are 9-15 years old. I added a poker chip challenge to the "Help I'm Stuck" chapter that really got the kids excited. After testing their programs we placed all the robots on the 4'x8' field with a poker chip laying on the screen of the EV3 brick. We then set the robots in motion with the goal of minimal obstacle impact including with other robots. When the chip fell off that robot was removed from the field until there was only one robot left that was declared the winner! The activity really drove home the importance of reduced speed and less rapid changes of inertia. They also made it quite fun by adding robot sounds in the loop when obstacles were encountered! I'm having as much fun as the kids and I'm a 60 year-old retired chemistry/physics instuctor!!
Hi, you can get the EV3 ball castor from any LEGO Education provider. Check here to find your local one – http://www.legoeducation.com
How do you get the castor part if you only have the EV3 home set (#31313)?
Finally got these together at Indooroopilly – a quick sturdy build for beginners. Thanks for sharing, Damien!
Hi Damien
I just downloaded the rover build instructions to use with my Y5 classes over the coming weeks. It is just what I was looking for as a quick introduction to the EVA3. Thanks so much.
Allison – Brisbane, Australia
Hi Damien..
I really enjoyed building this Riley rover.. My students liked it.. Can you add some more interesting bots for kids..?
FRC #2881 is using Riley Rover to introduce elementary school girls and boys to programming. We are a Girl Scout team from Texas working at a STEAM camp. The camp is a cooperation between Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts and Austin Independent School District to reach more young students and to keep them academically active during the summer months.
This spring we started using RileyR at ExplorationWorks Science Center in Helena MT in our EV3 classes – it is so much easier than the standard build, and leaves more time for programming, and developing their own builds. EV3 is a bit harder than NXT – and your lesson plans and builds are making this system accessible to the eager younger kids.
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This is great! My "beginner" students just jumped right in there! It was awesome! Thank you!
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Hi Kent, I use a combination of MLCAD and LPUB to create the instructions. There is a steep learning curve, but the results are well worth it. If you're looking to teach LEGO CAD to students, I'd recommend LEGO Digital Designer instead.
hello i would like to ask you how did you create the building instruction
Hi,
Your Rover is simply amazing. For our classes un Switzerland, it's just the Roll's.
Thank's for all.
this is a very good simple design that i found very useful for simple tasks, thatnk you for your help, i am not a very creative builder so this helped me a lot to get started. thanks again
Hi Ian,
Yes it was put on sideways to complement the up/down activity in the book. It's easy to switch it to left/right though if you want. I just find, especially for novice kids and teachers, that the up/down is a better start. The left/right is notoriously inaccurate and the up/down gives them the chance to have a successful outcome, and a start the discussion around things like 'drift' and resetting the gyro.
Hi Damien,
Though I've been having the students build Riley for a while now, this is the first time I've looked closely at it. An earlier commenter asked about the orientation of the gyro and I echo that question. Was it put on sideways because you have an up/down activity in your book? I usually tell my students to change it so the arrows are on top and we can use it for turns. Just wondering. Bang-up job as usual!
Awesome Debbie 🙂
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built Riley today. The kids loved it.
Thanks Bill – try email_gray@sacredheart.wa.edu.au.