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Building Smart LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Robots

You're reading from   Building Smart LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Robots Leverage the LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 platform to build and program intelligent robots

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788471565
Length 258 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kyle Markland Kyle Markland
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Mechanical design

There are a lot of interesting techniques used in Grunt's design. We will take a glance at each one.

Walking mechanism

What makes Grunt stand out from all of the other projects in this book is that he does not use wheels or tank tracks to move around. Instead, he has a simple walking mechanism that allows him to move around on two legs.

Two EV3 large motors power the legs, one for each leg (ports B and C). Each motor directly drives a large 36-tooth bevel gear, which serves two purposes—it acts as a cam onto which one point of the leg is attached, and it transfers the motor's power through a 12-tooth gear to a second 36-tooth bevel gear, which acts as the second point on which the leg is...

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