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Published inJan 2015
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ISBN-139781783985029
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Gary Garber
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Gary Garber

Gary Garber teaches physics, math, and engineering at Boston University Academy. Gary is the president of the New England Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers and has led dozens of professional development workshops in education at both the local and national levels. Gary runs the Boston University FIRST Robotics program. He has run and hosted numerous robotics workshops in VEX, Tetrix, and LEGO platforms. He has run dozens of LEGO robotics tournaments and spoken on robotics education at both local and national conferences. His robotics team has worked with Engineers Without Borders, NASA, and the National Science Teachers Association on a variety of engineering and education projects. He is currently an educational consultant, working to develop new software tools for the classroom, at the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach, which is a pioneer in LEGO Robotics Education. He is the author of Instant LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3, Packt Publishing. He currently resides in Massachusetts, US. When he is not playing with LEGO, robots, or toy trains, he enjoys spending time with his wife, Catalina, and their two children, Alejandro and Leonardo.
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Embedded into the EV3 software are model instructions for several different robots. These instructions are presented in the Content Editor and follow a certain format spread out over three pages.

  • A video of the completed model

  • Step-by-step building instructions

  • The computer program

However, the program does not appear until you reach the third page. The mechanism to allow this is called Page Action. By moving to the next page, you can trigger actions such as opening a program or project. This is useful if you don't want your reader to be distracted by what is coming next, or you want it to be a surprise. In order to trigger the release of a program, follow the steps shown in the following screenshots. First open the Page Action menu.

If you select Go To Program, then you will be asked to choose a program, as shown in the following screenshot, so that, when the page is opened, the program will open simultaneously. This can also be useful if you are using different programs for the same model. For instance, you could include a video and/or text description of the execution of that program in a page of the Content Editor, but not open the program until the page is selected.

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Author (1)

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Gary Garber

Gary Garber teaches physics, math, and engineering at Boston University Academy. Gary is the president of the New England Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers and has led dozens of professional development workshops in education at both the local and national levels. Gary runs the Boston University FIRST Robotics program. He has run and hosted numerous robotics workshops in VEX, Tetrix, and LEGO platforms. He has run dozens of LEGO robotics tournaments and spoken on robotics education at both local and national conferences. His robotics team has worked with Engineers Without Borders, NASA, and the National Science Teachers Association on a variety of engineering and education projects. He is currently an educational consultant, working to develop new software tools for the classroom, at the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach, which is a pioneer in LEGO Robotics Education. He is the author of Instant LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3, Packt Publishing. He currently resides in Massachusetts, US. When he is not playing with LEGO, robots, or toy trains, he enjoys spending time with his wife, Catalina, and their two children, Alejandro and Leonardo.
Read more about Gary Garber