Programming a Robot from Anywhere in the World

Programming a FIRST LEGO League Challenge Robot from Anywhere in the World

This video discusses several ways that FIRST LEGO League teams can collaborate on programming their robot when they can't get together in person during the pandemic. It then focuses on real-time programming of the robot using Google Remote Desktop along with one of several video conferencing platforms.

This approach can be adapted by FIRST Tech Challenge but to do so requires that the hosting computer be connected to the Internet via with an Ethernet cable to a router so the computer's Wifi can used to connect to the robot.

Most video conferencing platforms have a screen-share feature and some like Zoom and GoToMeeting have a remote-control feature. Unfortunately, Zoom and GoToMeeting don’t support remote when you use Chromebooks. Fortunately, when Google Remote Desktop is used in conjunction with these platforms teams gets both features in any combination of Mac, Windows PC or Chromebook with Google Meets, GoToMeeting or Zoom. So, this video focuses on using Remote Desktop because it provides both features. The main requirement is the computers must have a recent version of the Firefox, Edge or Chrome browser plus Safari for Mac computers.