Lego Green City Challenge Solar Panel

A new approach to learning robotics.

Lego green city challenge solar panel.

For learning and teaching the basic principles of numerous disciplines essential to robotics not only. Green city robotics is a program in which students learn about sustainable living by building and programming lego mindstorm robots. After the success of activating the wind mill i was filled with confidence that installing a solar panel would be a piece of cake. The massive danish toy company lego has acquired a us solar power builder in the companies pledge to sustainability.

The green challenge t green city challenge alnts to apply and adapt all their prrroblem solving skills by making their robots solve chal rrrgy. To make the solar powered lego car you will need a few lego parts including gears axles a small 9v solar panel a mini 6 v motor both with wires connected to them and some extra strong glue we used krazy glue from elmer s. Although the company has a ways to go with their pledge the progress they ve made is remarkable. Lego panel 1 x 2 x 2 with porthole without side supports hollow studs 6268 56077 from.

For each chal the studenrginystem. T green city challenge sets the scene f chaln solvefor easy differentiation there arr green city challenge frntrodry level 1 to the more advanced le3. This week i will be continuing the green city challenge. The robots are programmed to complete challenges using lego s green city challenge set the set includes practice mats two green city challenge mats and 1 300 lego bricks for building challenge models like wind turbines and power plants.

The challenge was simply to have the robot carry the solar panel to the house and then place it on top without it falling off to release the energy brick. 9594 green city challenge set for lego mindstorms.