FIRST LEGO League Challenge Robot Design and Building

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The two current LEGO sets that are used for designing and building FIRST LEGO League robots share many parts. Nevertheless, because their main bricks also known as hubs and their motors are different the robots built from them tend to look quite different.

General

Community Webinar: Building and Programming Reliable Robots by Sanjay Seshan & Arvind Seshan, FRC 8027

In this webinar, Sanjay and Arvind
discuss the issue of reliability in
FIRST LEGO League Challenge Robots.
This Webinar was originally broadcast by
FIRST Canada on October 8, 2020 for their
FIRST LEGO League Kickoff and Conference.

SPIKE Prime

The SPIKE Prime set is supported by free downloadable software that includes instructions for building a variety of robots including two designs that can be useful starting points for FIRST LEGO League robots.

In addition to the instructions that come with the app, LEGO Education has posted information about FIRST LEGO League missions on their web site.

Mindstorms EV3

The booklet that comes with the Mindstorms EV3 kit includes some basic designs that are good starting points.

Sample Robot Designs

Design Software