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Design Innovative Robots with LEGO SPIKE Prime

You're reading from   Design Innovative Robots with LEGO SPIKE Prime Seven creative STEM robotic designs to challenge your mind

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801811576
Length 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with SPIKE Prime 2. Chapter 2: Building an Industrial Robot Claw FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Building a LEGO Guitar 4. Chapter 4: Building a Mechanical Bird 5. Chapter 5: Building a Sumobot 6. Chapter 6: Building a Dragster 7. Chapter 7: Building a Simon Says Game 8. Other Books You May Enjoy

Building the base

The beauty of this robotics kit is that you can easily get started with any type of build because of the new pieces that are included. There are a lot of different options, depending on the strategy and size of your sumobot.

For this robot, the following strategies and constraints were used in the design:

  • The body frame needs to be open for any user to remix, add to, and modify to their liking.
  • The sumobot strategy is to identify the other robot and use sensors to push the other robot out of the arena using the little scoops at the front and back to slightly lift and push the robot.
  • The robot needs to be low to the ground to keep the weight distribution and center of gravity low to avoid falling over.

To begin, you will add eight black connector pins to an azure 11x15 open frame:

  1. Place four on each side, according to Figure 5.2. These are placed to allow the motors to be added:

    Figure 5.2 – The main frame of the robot body

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