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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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Aaron Maurer Aaron Maurer
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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 dragster

Before we get into the building of this dragster, let's explore the strategy being used for this dragster. The strategy for drag racing is all about speed. How fast can you get from the starting line to the finish line? That is it! The design of this dragster is based on the following strategies:

  • Low to the ground to eliminate drag.
  • Minimal touch points – the less friction the better.
  • Gearing up to max out the speed of the dragster.
  • Weight balance to help the dragster stay straight.

Keeping these features in mind will help you understand why the dragster is built the way it has been designed. Additionally, the dragster has been designed in a way to allow plenty of customization to be done to it without losing sight of these strategies. The body design has been created to give the look of a dragster, but you could easily modify the design to your own liking, as well as adding to or reducing the weight of the dragster.

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