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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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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

Building the tail

Our next step is to add motors three and four to the sides. You are going to use two motors for an equal balance of the body. This will also allow the tail to be strongly held to the body of the robot.

To get started, you will need the following pieces:

  • Two motors
  • Four black connector pins
  • Two white perpendicular connector pins
  • Four wire clips
  • Two blue connector pins
  • Two black 11L beams
  • One distance sensor
  • Two black round elbow connectors
  • Four blue axle pins

Using two black connector pins for each motor, attach the motors to the sides of the teal base plate, as follows:

Figure 5.16 – Side motors for the tail

Next, insert a white perpendicular connector pin to each of the motors on the top of each motor on the edge, as follows:

Figure 5.17 – White connector pin added to top of each motor

This is also a great time to use the wire clips to organize your...

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