Rob Torok

Rob Torok

  • Joined: 5 September 2022
  • Articles: 18

EV3 Daisy Chain Mode

Daisy chaining allows multiple EV3 bricks to be connected using USB cables, enabling the first brick in the chain to control the motors and read the sensors connected to the others. To set up the chain, connect the USB port…

FIRST Tech Challenge: Hard Fun

FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) is a robotics competition for students aged 12–18 to design, build, and program a robot to compete in an alliance format against other teams. But it’s way more than just building robots! FTC empowers students to…

FIRST LEGO League: More Than Robots

Devil Robotics has proudly hosted the FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Hobart Regional each year since 2019, with teams from more than 30 schools and organisations across Tasmania participating over that time. The Hobart Regional feeds into the National Championship South,…

Crossing the Gap

Build a robot that can drive up to a gap, deploy a bridge, and then use the bridge to cross the gap. Each team was limited to a maximum of two large yellow plates. Before starting this challenge, we reviewed…

Playing Games

Starting with some example code, design and build a robot game. As a warm-up everyone was provided with a sheet containing basic code for three different types of game and had to see if they could work out what the…

Behaviour-based Robots

This week’s challenge was to make a robot react to the inputs from two different sensors. Up until this week, we’ve been randomising the groups. This week, however, participants had the option of choosing their own teams, but with the…

Robot Art

The main challenge was to build a robot that can hold a marker pen and do some robot art. As an intro activity, we provided a bunch of example programs designed to draw different shapes (e.g. square, spiral, circle, star,…

Robopet

Design and build a robotic pet that uses sensors to interact with its environment. We started with a discussion about what are the features of a good pet. For some reason we ended lots of dogs, but we also had…