

You get cool medals for each milestone, which you can then brag about. Teachers can keep track of their students’ progress. If you use the standard levels, you can login to the CS2N (Computer Science Student Network) site and keep track of your achievements. I haven’t really played with that, so I can’t tell you what it’s like, exactly, but the tables look cool and pretty challenging! Once they get the multi-player stuff integrated in the standard RVW program, you could even battle it out against another team in another part of the world! They model the whole thing in RVW, so you can practice certain moves without needing to set everything up. You can use RVW to practice FTC tables as well. There are even some underwater ones that you can navigate through using the AnemoBot (see right), which looks like a little sub marine!
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There are tonnes of pre-made ones that you can download from the ROBOTC site. If you look at the bottom left of the screen, you can see the maze level I made. There is also a range of VEX robots, which I won’t get into now. I am a big fan of the Mammal Bot, it looks cool and it has all the sensors in the places I want them to be. Here you can see the start up screen if you pick “NXT” as your virtual platform and use the Level Builder: No fear, though, there are several models to play with. When you build your own, you can make it however you like it, in RVW, you’re “stuck” using the models the designers have made for you. RVW allows you to play with robots without actually requiring your to build one first. You can even make your own levels (which is what I did).

There are many different world or levels that you can play with. RVW is a 3D virtual robotics system made by Robomatter, which allows you to program and control several different robot models, using ROBOTC. If you’ve never played with that before then let me take a second to explain it. I’ve been dabbling with Robot Virtual World (RVW) worlds a bit lately.
