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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

Chapter 4: Building a LEGO Guitar

Entertainment is an important aspect of our lives and well-being. Music is a great hobby and interest for people and it also creates career-making opportunities. As technology continues to advance in our lives, we see it increasingly being used to create music, music experiences, concerts, and more.

This chapter will be combining robotics and music by using the Robot Inventor kit to make a guitar that is playable and codable to our unique needs.

With a gaming industry that was impacted by the awesomeness of Guitar Hero and the likes of many other music games, let's create our own instrument that will allow you to jam out to your favorite song.

Here is what your guitar will look like by the end of this chapter:

Figure 4.1 – The final guitar build

In this chapter, we will break down the guitar build and coding into the following sections:

  • Building the stand (to place the guitar on when not in use...
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