{"id":284,"date":"2015-04-19T14:26:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T21:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterwong.net\/blog\/?p=284"},"modified":"2015-04-19T14:26:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T21:26:07","slug":"getting-the-kid-started-with-lego-technic-and-mindstorms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterwong.net\/blog\/getting-the-kid-started-with-lego-technic-and-mindstorms\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting the kid started with Lego Technic and Mindstorms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer, I started to teach my kid about building with Lego Technic, particularly using the EV3 Mindstorms set.&#160; Though she had been building with non-technic Lego bricks for years now, the Technic pieces involve a different mindset, dealing more with beams and pins rather than bricks and studs.<\/p>\n<p>One of the original constructs from Claire is this dog head that we attached to a mini robot we built from one of the Lego books we have:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/peterwong.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/LegoEV3DogHead.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"LegoEV3DogHead\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"LegoEV3DogHead\" src=\"\/\/peterwong.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/LegoEV3DogHead_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"139\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The robot was from Yoshihito Isagawa\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/LEGO-MINDSTORMS-EV3-Idea-Book\/dp\/1593276001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lego Mindstorms EV3 Idea Book<\/a>, but the head was Claire\u2019s original design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer, I started to teach my kid about building with Lego Technic, particularly using the EV3 Mindstorms set.&#160; Though she had been building with non-technic Lego bricks for years now, the Technic pieces involve a different mindset, dealing more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/peterwong.net\/blog\/getting-the-kid-started-with-lego-technic-and-mindstorms\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[14,18],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ev3","tag-lego"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterwong.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterwong.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterwong.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterwong.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterwong.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterwong.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterwong.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterwong.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterwong.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}