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Q: Can you use EV3 Software on both Mac and PC?
A: The EV3 software can be used on both Mac and PC platforms to program LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education EV3 P-
bricks.
Q: What programming platforms can you use with LEGO MINDSTORMS Education EV3?
A: Besides the EV3 software, you can also use LabVIEW and RobotC. EV3 is an open-source platform and, therefore,
we anticipate the MINDSTORMS community to develop additional languages such as JAVA.
Q: What new software-updates have been made?
There are many new features and improvements from NXT to EV3. Some of the more noticeable are:
Lobby:
 New full screen lobby to navigate through the content provided by LEGO Education, third parties and user
generated; making sure the teaching objective is in focus.
Content Editor:
 Content is editable directly inside the environment, enabling customization of existing projects or creation of new
ones from scratch.
 The Content Editor provides a digital workbook for students where they can capture their work by inserting text,
images, videos and sound creating their own digital workbook.
Tighter integration between the P-brick and the programming environment:
 The hardware page enables monitoring the status and values measured by all the hardware elements.
 Hardware elements are automatically recognized thanks to auto-id.
 Bluetooth configuration is facilitated by the USB to Bluetooth features.
Debugging features now part of the programming environment:
 Execution highlight.
 Programming blocks will display a warning symbol if expected hardware by the programming block is different
from the detected hardware by auto-id.
 Probes enable seeing the values going through the data wires.
New programming blocks possibilities:
 Simple strip programming by snapping blocks together (no need to use the beam anymore).
 Block parameters configured directly on block.
 Read program sequence directly on blocks.
 Improved sequence wires that facilitate showing the structure of the program and creating parallel execution.
 Wait for change added to easily create robots that behave according to change in the environment, as opposed to
wait for threshold that only works by comparing measured values.
 Data wires improved and data casting added to simplify data type conversion.
 Arrays integrated in the standard blocks.
 Loop interruption now possible, enabling creating advance state control mechanisms.
Data logging:
 Oscilloscope mode enables live monitoring of the sensors to prepare experiments and validate setup.
 Dataset calculation integrated, enabling analysis of the data coming from the sensors.
 Graph programming added; this feature enables users to create zones on the graph that will make the robot react
in the physical world based on the data on the graph.
Q: In what languages is the LEGO MINDSTORMS Education EV3 software available?
US English
British English
Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
German
French
Spanish
Italian
Portuguese
Dutch
Korean
Japanese
Chinese
Russian
Arabic
Q: Will the LEGO MINDSTORMS Education EV3 software work on my tablet/phone?
A: No. At release time, the software works on PC and Mac laptop and desktop systems. Simple control apps are under
development and are expected in second half 2013.