GenBot Building Instructions

Demonstration Looking for an open-box, simple and effective EV3 Robotic Design? GenBot is a simple Robotic Design model for Lego Mindstorms EV3(Core Set). It requires least parts and quickest way to make a simple yet effective robot for your first program run. Following are the comprehensive set of building instructions of the robot. However, the…

Pir Arkam

September 19, 2018

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Demonstration

Looking for an open-box, simple and effective EV3 Robotic Design?

GenBot is a simple Robotic Design model for Lego Mindstorms EV3(Core Set). It requires least parts and quickest way to make a simple yet effective robot for your first program run. Following are the comprehensive set of building instructions of the robot. However, the youtube video in this post is a better way to follow the building instructions. But, on a personal request of a student from Saudi Arabia I have made a post with images. Please let me know if you have any queries.

I designed GenBot for the students of Generation’s School, Karachi when I worked there as Facilitator, Education Technologies. However, it can be used for anybody who intend to start with basic robot to understand EV3 programming. A personal suggestion is to use the images/steps along side with the video for better and easier understanding.

Beginning with collecting all of the parts required as shown in the image below:

Now lets start with our first steps:

Now lets give robot some stability by connecting both motors and providing a chassis:

Giving GenBot more strength. Tightening up motors with the EV3 Brick:

Do the same on both sides

Now Lets give some wheels:

Time to add Caster Wheel, Caster wheel comes with only EV3 Core Set

Now connect motors with the ABCD ports of EV3 brick with cables and your robot is ready to go! Please do share your views and thoughts on this design.

About the Author

Pir Arkam

Greetings, Iam a student of Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul pursuing M.Sc Mechatronics Engineering. Since my 1st year of bachelors I was always fond of making Projects of Electronics and Robotics Engineering. Idea of making this website came from the hardships which I myself faced whenever I wanted to make any electronics project.I was a rookie inexperienced student in my class who had a thrift to make electronics projects, but over internet it was so much difficult to teach myself. I spent hours in the labs to learn and make circuits on breadboard and when I mastered it, I thought to share all of the projects which I made during my bachelors of engineering with the hobbyists/students out there who are facing same difficulties like I faced. So if you’re rookie to this field, new to the world of Electronics and you don’t know where to start then Rookie Electronics is the right place. Here you will be able to learn Electronics practical knowledge starting from a very low level & slowly you’ll become master at it. I hope you find my work helpful. Good luck!

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