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Learning Lego Mindstorms EV3

You're reading from Learning Lego Mindstorms EV3 Build and create interactive, sensor-based robots using your LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 kit

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783985029

Length 284 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Lego Mindstorms

Concepts

Single Board Computers

Author (1):

Gary Garber

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Engineering Notebook FREE CHAPTER

2. Mechanical Design

3. Drive Train and Chassis

4. Sensors and Control

5. Interacting with EV3

6. Output from EV3

7. Advanced Programming

8. Advanced Programming and Control

9. Experiment Software and Data Logging

10. Other Programming Languages

11. Communication between Robots

12. Advanced Robot – Gyro Boy

Index

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to use messaging and Bluetooth communication between robots. You learned how to make robots interact with each other. You also learned how to dynamically update the motions of a slave robot based on sensor feedback. Lastly, you saw how the power of multiple robots working together enables us to accomplish more than one robot can by itself.

In the next chapter, we will explore one of the advanced programs from LEGO, Gyro Boy.

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Authors (1)

Garber

Garber

Gary Garber teaches physics, math, and engineering at Boston University Academy. Gary is the president of the New England Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers and has led dozens of professional development workshops in education at both the local and national levels. Gary runs the Boston University FIRST Robotics program. He has run and hosted numerous robotics workshops in VEX, Tetrix, and LEGO platforms. He has run dozens of LEGO robotics tournaments and spoken on robotics education at both local and national conferences. His robotics team has worked with Engineers Without Borders, NASA, and the National Science Teachers Association on a variety of engineering and education projects. He is currently an educational consultant, working to develop new software tools for the classroom, at the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach, which is a pioneer in LEGO Robotics Education. He is the author of Instant LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3, Packt Publishing. He currently resides in Massachusetts, US. When he is not playing with LEGO, robots, or toy trains, he enjoys spending time with his wife, Catalina, and their two children, Alejandro and Leonardo.

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