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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 ultrasonic sensor attachment

  1. You are now going to add the ultrasonic sensor so that during competition, your robot can detect the opponent:

  2. Add two black connector pins to the azure 11x15 open frame where the motors are positioned and then add an azure 7L beam to these pins. Next, add two more black connector pins to the end pin holes of this beam:

    Figure 5.8 – Attaching the 7L beam to the frame

  3. Connect the ultrasonic sensor to the robot by using the two black connector pins:

    Figure 5.9 – Connecting the ultrasonic sensor

  4. You are now going to build a sub-model that will eventually connect underneath the ultrasonic sensor using the following steps:
    1. Place two purple 2x16 plates side by side.
    2. Secure them together using four white 2x2 round bricks.
    3. Add four yellow 1x2 slopes on the ends to serve as a bumper to lift up your robot opponent in battle:

Figure 5.10 – Building the plow for the front

  1. It is time to add another...
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