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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 motor frame

The first part of this build is to align the motors with a larger gear to maximize speed:

  1. To begin, you will combine two medium motors together using a yellow 3L yellow axle. In the space between the motors, insert a 36-tooth double-bevel gear:

    Figure 6.2 – Combining the medium motors with the gear

  2. On the side of each of the medium motors, attach two black connector pins on the outside pin holes and connect an azure 13L beam:

    Figure 6.3 – Add a 13L beam to the side of the medium motors

  3. You will build a simple frame to house the Intelligent Hub and ensure it does not cause friction with the gear system. The steps to do that are as follows:
    1. On the top of each medium motor, add two gray H perpendicular connectors.
    2. Connect two black 9L beams across the motors using the gray H perpendicular connectors.
    3. Add two black connector pins to each of the black 9L beams:

Figure 6.4 – Building the raised frame for...

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