ev3dev2simulator: simulator for the EV3 (ev3dev2 API)

The behaviour of the EV3 robot is simulated in the simulator. This is convenient to quickly test programs when you momentarily don’t have access to an EV3.

You can use the 'ev3dev2' python library to program the EV3. The simulator installs a fake 'ev3dev2' library on the PC. When using this library on the PC, every call to this API is forwarded to the simulator which uses it to simulate the behaviour of the EV3 robot.

For an example see: https://github.com/ev3dev-python-tools/thonny-ev3dev/wiki/Simulator-example
The running program can be seen in the following video: http://www.cs.ru.nl/lab/ev3dev2simulator.html .

The thonny-ev3dev plugin makes it easier to program the EV3 programmable LEGO brick using the Thonny Python IDE for beginners. The thonny-ev3dev plugin for the Thonny IDE comes with the ev3dev2simulator.

For more info about the thonny-ev3dev plugin see: https://github.com/ev3dev-python-tools/thonny-ev3dev/wiki
For more info about Thonny: http://thonny.org

Getting started

Install with pip

  pip install ev3dev2simulator

Then you can just run the simulator by running the executable:

  ev3dev2simulator

Using the simulator

The user guide of the simulator can be found on the wiki.