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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

Tread-bot with the Retail kit

Tanks are fun to build and have the added advantage of easily climbing over obstacles. You will notice that a lot of tank designs will have larger center wheels. Having a larger center wheel can be particularly useful if you want to climb up ramps or go over bumps. Without the center wheel, if you are climbing over a bump, there is a chance of getting stuck. However, when you have a larger center wheel, your robot will often be tilted. Your robot will not be constantly parallel to the ground, which can be a problem with calibrating any sensors you might be using for navigation. I encourage you to play around with larger center wheels on your tanks, but the models I provide here have smaller center wheels. You will need the parts shown in the following screenshot in the Bill of Materials to assemble the tread-bot:

Tread-bot with the Retail kit

Start with your chassis:

Tread-bot with the Retail kit

You will now make two of the following submodels, which are the tread assemblies. You will start out by attaching pins, axles...

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