Robotics & Systems/NuiBot/Build
Build
Base robots
Droid Bot 2.0
Gyro-sensor drive base, designed by the Seshan Brothers. A good default starting build.
138 steps
Step-by-step guide coming soon
Enterprise
Uses only the standard EV3 Core Set. Optional second colour sensor and gyro sensor.
82–117 bricks
Step-by-step guide coming soon
Once your base is built, check the Function Library to see which sensors your function needs, then head to Code or Ask NuiBot to start programming it.
EV3 lessons that help
Early Options work on motion and gearing
- Trial and Error
- First Gear
Short, guided Generate exercises, one per Function Library row
- Objects and Obstacles
- Grab and Release
- Colors and Lines
- Angles and Patterns
A close match for the open Frame-through-Explain sequence
- The Factory Robot
Where parts come from
Now: everything the Function Library lists as available comes from the school’s LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Core Set and Technic elements. The build constraint is “what’s in the kit”.
Later: The full NuiBot vision, a mobile base with a six-joint arm, modular environmental probes, a dual-lens camera, and onboard AI processing, is not built from a kit. It depends on funding and build capacity beyond this term's trial. That is why the Function Library separates what a function needs from what currently supplies it: the need doesn't change, only the source does.
For teachers: before Week 1
- Confirm the full sensor set is present and functional: Ultrasonic, Colour, Gyro, Touch.
- Check the Intelligent Bricks are charged.
- Check whether the additional bricks sought through the CFS funding application have arrived; that changes how many groups can build in parallel.
- Coding setup: a microSD card (4–32GB, Application Performance Class A1 recommended) loaded with the EV3 MicroPython image, and a mini-USB cable.
- Check the coding setup is working on the devices students will use before Week 1, not mid-lesson.