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LEGO - Mindstorms EV3 31313
Average customer rating
4.5
(41 Reviews)
Rating breakdown 41 reviews
5 Stars
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88%of customers recommend this product.
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Customer Reviews for LEGO - Mindstorms EV3 31313
Customer Rating
3
Not the MindStorms I Remember
on November 25, 2013
Posted by: Madsmith
I fell in love with Mindstorms in college when we used a Lego RCX to program our projects in my Intro to Robotics course. It was a lot of fun and you really could express your ideas in so many ways. That is what Mindstorms brings to mind. Brainstorming solutions, the limit of what you can do is what your mind can think of.
After opening my EV3 kit, I set aside the instructions and went about creating my children a little robot. I start looking through the pieces and I realize that all of the things I loved to build with a not in this set. No differential drive. I have 4 wheels and two treads, but I can't create something with both treads and wheels. No technic bricks what so ever. 3 gears sizes but it's really hard to build a gear reduction when they don't align, let alone when I don't have any non-friction connector peg cross axles. And then I'm looking at the servo motor and thinking to myself, man this takes up a ton of space. I'm going to have to find some creative way to build around all of this. I've got a handful of swords... K, I don't really need those but they're nice decorative pieces. I've got plenty of body plates, weird balls, and pre-casted cages pieces but it's all decorative fluff. When you get does to it, the guts are missing.
This kit is setup to build the 5 basic robot layouts designed on the box and not much more than that. Even my 8 year old daughter picked it up and within 5 minutes said, "I can't build what I want with this".
Now, on the positive side, I do like the new controller. I like that it features Bluetooth. With the iOS app, you can build your own custom controllers which is pretty cool. It has a nice diagnostic page for checking the values on all the ports and positions of all the servo motors. It also has a page to manually drive the motor ports with the buttons.
But... It does take a long time to turn on which is a real pain when you're iteratively building your own creation and you want to test ideas while not leaving it running all the time draining batteries. And it seems a bit heftier than the old RCX controller. I had some concerns because it's a tad weighty for the servo motors to lift (particularly with the extra length of the motor unit, creating leverage against the motor). It features a stud less design, which speaks to some of the frustrations with this set. It'd be nice to have other ways to connect my lego's and technic parts to this other than connector pegs.
This set really needs some more spare parts included with it to let the users run wild with their imagination. Or alternatively, if we're minimizing giving the consumer extra parts that won't be used in every creation, then give me an add-on set I can purchase that has the pieces I'm going to very quickly realize I need if I want to do more than what's in the 5 sample robots.
Overall, this set has left me disappointed. I much prefer the technic motors to these ones. I wish they could give me servo motors in the technic motor form factor. I wish they included bricks and studs with this set, something other than angular beams. I wish there were cams and diff drives and turrets. I wish I had a full collection of connector pegs and cross axels and gears. I wish I just had more...
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Written by a customer while visiting LEGO
Customer Rating
4
PERFECT ITEM!!!!
on November 25, 2016
Posted by: legomaster1738
This is an amazing thing to have. I highly recommend it to people who love lego. there is 1 thing which is weird. The brick has 4 motor ports but 3 motors come in the pack.
In the mindstorm NXT there are 2 touch sesors in 1 pack, but here is one.
The computer software is ONLY AVAILABLE FOR MAC & WINDOWS COMPUTERS!!!!
I LOVE IT...
In the mindstorm NXT there are 2 touch sesors in 1 pack, but here is one.
The computer software is ONLY AVAILABLE FOR MAC & WINDOWS COMPUTERS!!!!
I LOVE IT...
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting LEGO
Customer Rating
5
Good robotics kit
on July 9, 2017
Posted by: Aryaman
It is one of the best robotics kit that is very easily programmable. You can explore your creativity with this kit. It has a good drag-n-drop programming experience. Good for increasing the creativity ideas.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting LEGO
Customer Rating
4
lego mindstorms ev3
on November 10, 2016
Posted by: helsenjoery
i would really recomment this product it is awsome its defently a big purchase but it is all worth it if you use it good programing is realy hard but it just takes time to
learn the program im realy glad that er is so many videos online to learn the ev3 system
just think before you buy
learn the program im realy glad that er is so many videos online to learn the ev3 system
just think before you buy
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting LEGO
Customer Rating
5
on July 16, 2014
Posted by: legofan71102
When you program the ball shooter decrease the power otherwise it shoots the ball far away I already lost one ball
I would recommend this to a friend!
Response from LEGOBy Nicholas, Technical Product Specialist, LEGO® Consumer Services, September 6, 2014
Thanks so much for your feedback on the MINDSTORMS EV3 robot. We are sorry to hear that you are having some trouble with programing your new creation. To troubleshoot we have a number of resources that may be of use to you. Check out the MINDSTORMS product page on LEGO.com for FAQ, message boards, and contact information for our technical support team.
I hope this helps!
I hope this helps!
Written by a customer while visiting LEGO
Customer Rating
5
Exerlent
on March 20, 2018
Posted by: jeeef911000
we use them at school and we have the time of our life
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting LEGO
Customer Rating
5
on April 3, 2018
Posted by: Jay2003
I love to try building different things with the set, especially with thread or twine.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting LEGO
Customer Rating
3
No battery???
on November 17, 2017
Posted by: Sceffi
Ok for this amount of money, you could have included a battery... and cable.
We bought my daughter the robot it she can't play with it because we have run out of batteries. It's sad really that you charge this much and cannot include a battery. And now it will sit unsused for at least a month until I can afford one and in the mean time, I get to explain to my daughger why I bought her a toy and basically have taken it away.
I'm trying to encourage my daughter in robots and STEM but you make it difficult. Thanks!
We bought my daughter the robot it she can't play with it because we have run out of batteries. It's sad really that you charge this much and cannot include a battery. And now it will sit unsused for at least a month until I can afford one and in the mean time, I get to explain to my daughger why I bought her a toy and basically have taken it away.
I'm trying to encourage my daughter in robots and STEM but you make it difficult. Thanks!
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Written by a customer while visiting LEGO