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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783985029
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gary Garber Gary Garber
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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

Caster-bot with the Educational kit


Although you can make a skid-bot with the Educational Edition of the EV3, the caster allows you even greater maneuverability because there is less friction. Having said that, the skid will actually respond better to bumps than the caster if your terrain is not perfectly flat. But I am interested in a robot that can be maneuvered with precision, so I am going to have us build a robot with the caster. Let's start out by gathering the parts seen in the Bill of Materials that is shown in the following screenshot:

Start out by flipping over our chassis:

In our caster submodel, we will build an assembly to attach the caster to the chassis:

Next, we will attach the caster assembly to the chassis:

We now need axles to attach the drive wheels to the large motors. I am using the 8-mod stopped axles. The bushings are merely to provide extra space so that, as far as possible, the axles do not stick out of the robot and to prevent slippage.

Now add bushings to the outside...

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