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Controlling LEGO creations remotely.

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Turn on LEGO Mindstorms robot remotely

I know for a fact (from reading the EV3 schematics), the only way to turn on an EV3 is by pressing the center button. Here are some ideas to work around this issue: Create another robot that presse …
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Is it possible to use multiple IR beacons on different channels to control EV3?

Yes, it is possible to use up to 4 beacons at the same time since there are 4 selectable infrared signal channels. Also, the 8885 LEGO® Power Functions IR Remote Control is compatible with the EV3 I …
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Can I Conect 2 NXTs so that they work together?

Without 3rd party hardware or software, the only way to do this is to use Bluetooth messages. For example, you could write motor power to a Bluetooth mailbox on one NXT. The other NXT just has a simpl …
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Is it possible to control the EV3 brick with a GUI on PC? If so hows the best way to go abou...

For mobile devices, there is an official LEGO app called LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Commander that can do this (Android, iOS, Fire, Windows). If you want to write your own app, you will need to use the EV3 com …
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How to instruct Mindstorms EV3 from PC conditionally?

If you are running ev3dev on the EV3, you can use RPyC to remotely execute Python code on the EV3. Resources: Python-ev3dev. Working with ev3dev remotely using RPyC EV3 PYthon. RPyC
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EV3 with 6 motors

On Powered Up hubs like SPIKE Prime, all ports are the same and can be used with motors or sensors. That means you can use 6 motors and no sensors if you need to on SPIKE Prime. On EV3, ports A-D are …
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Xbox to Robot Inventor?

In 2024, Pybricks added the ability to connect an XBox controller directly to hubs that are running the 3rd-party Pybricks firmware. This works with MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor, SPIKE Prime, SPIKE Essen …
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Why doesn't my LEGO Micropython remote control program work?

You can get community support for Pybricks at https://github.com/pybricks/support. ir.buttons(1) returns a list of pressed buttons, so in this particular program if ir.buttons(1) == Button.BEACON: ne …
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EV3 does not react to Bluetooth commands after 1.7 seconds

rfcomm is an old and deprecated tool, so I'm not going to try to figure out what exactly is going on. I suspect that it has to do with the fact that it treats the connection as a TTY and it is sending …
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