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Smart Robotics with LEGO MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor

You're reading from   Smart Robotics with LEGO MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor Learn to play with the LEGO MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor kit and build creative robots

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800568402
Length 438 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Aaron Maurer Aaron Maurer
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: History of Mindstorms 2. Chapter 2: Getting Started with the Robot Inventor Kit FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Building an Industrial Robot Claw 4. Chapter 4: Building a LEGO Guitar 5. Chapter 5: Building a Scorpion 6. Chapter 6: Building a Solid Sumobot 7. Chapter 7: Building a Dragster 8. Chapter 8: Building an Egg and Ornament Decorator 9. Chapter 9: Creating Plankton from SpongeBob SquarePants – Part 1 10. Chapter 10: Creating Plankton from SpongeBob SquarePants – Part 2 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Building the stand

Before we build the actual guitar, we will start with building a stand to place the guitar when it is not in use. The stand is not a super-detailed creation as it uses the elements left over from the guitar build, but it serves a purpose and achieves the necessary function.

The base will look like this when complete:

Figure 4.2 – The stand for the guitar

Let's start building it!

Building the base

To get started, you will need the following pieces:

  • Two black 11x15 open frames
  • Two black 3x5 L beams
  • Four black connector pins

The required pieces can be seen in the following image:

Figure 4.3 – Pieces needed for the stand

You will start by grabbing two of the open frames and securing them together using the 3x5 L beams. This part is the main frame of the stand. You will stand them in a perpendicular fashion. Use two black connector pins with each of the L beams, using...

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