{"id":3905,"date":"2019-02-07T18:48:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T02:48:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"3905","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/3905","title":{"rendered":"What equipment do I need for the LEGO-EV3 Engineering Projects book?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/product\/vernier-engineering-projects-with-lego-mindstorms-education-ev3-electronic-version\/\"><i>Vernier Engineering Projects with LEGO&reg; MINDSTORMS&reg; Education EV3<\/i><\/a> (<nobr>EP-EV3-E<\/nobr>), contains 13 engineering challenges. Here is an outline of the Vernier and LEGO equipment required for the projects:<\/p>\n<p>Vernier Equipment<\/p>\n<p>To perform all of the projects you will need the following package of Vernier sensors and Vernier Sensor Adapter for EV3 and NXT:<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/product\/engineering-projects-with-lego-mindstorms-ev3\/\">Engineering Projects with LEGO<sup>&reg;<\/sup> MINDSTORMS<sup>&reg;<\/sup> EV3<\/a> (<nobr>LEGO-EP<\/nobr>)<\/p>\n<p>You can purchase sensors a la cart if you prefer. If you do, you will also need to purchase the Vernier Sensor Adapter for EV3 and NXT:<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/product\/nxt-sensor-adapter\/\">NXT Sensor Adapter<\/a> (<nobr>BTA-NXT<\/nobr>)<\/p>\n<p>The Activities section of the following web page has a table that outlines which sensors are used for each of the projects:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/products\/books\/ep-ev3\/\">https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/products\/books\/ep-ev3\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LEGO Robotics Equipment<\/p>\n<p>You will need the LEGO\u00ae MINDSTORMS\u00ae Education EV3 Core Set. The LEGO\u00ae MINDSTORMS\u00ae software is included in the purchase of the EV3 Core Set:<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/product\/lego-mindstorms-education-ev3-core-set-with-charger\/\">LEGO<sup>&reg;<\/sup> MINDSTORMS<sup>&reg;<\/sup> Education EV3 Core Set with Charger<\/a> (<nobr>LEGO-EV3-CORE<\/nobr>)<\/p>\n<p>The following projects require additional equipment:<\/p>\n<p>The Plant Waterer project requires a LEGO Pneumatic Hand Pump and pneumatic tubing.<br \/>\nThe Cartesian Diver project requires a LEGO Pneumatic Hand Pump, pneumatic tubing and LEGO Pneumatic Switch.<br \/>\nThe Solar Tracker project requires two small solar panels, such as <a href=\"\/product\/kidwind-2v-400ma-solar-panel\/\">KidWind 2V\/400mA Solar Panel<\/a> (<nobr>KW-SP2V<\/nobr>)<\/p>\n<p>At this time, LEGO Education sells a Pneumatics Add-On Set (part number 9641) that includes pumps, switches, tubing, an air tank, cylinders, and a manometer.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>, contains 13 engineering challenges. Here is an outline of the Vernier and LEGO equipment required for the projects: Vernier Equipment To perform all of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8983,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2613,6569,3672,2614],"class_list":["post-3905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bta-nxt","tag-ep-ev3","tag-ev3","tag-lego"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}