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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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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

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

Adding the motors for the arms

Locate the following elements for the arms:

  • Two motors
  • Four black 3L beams
  • Six black connector pins
  • Two gray connector perpendicular pins

The required pieces can be seen in the following image:

Figure 9.12 – Parts layout

Start this section by connecting the gray connector perpendicular pins to the gray part of the motors. It is easier if you have motors facing down, to ensure you properly build the part in the right direction to fit on the main frame. This is illustrated in the following image:

Figure 9.13 – Gray perpendicular pins added to motor

Next, add a black 3L beam to the other end of the gray connector perpendicular pins and insert a black connector pin in the middle hole of the black 3L beam, as illustrated in the following image:

Figure 9.14 – 3L beam added to motor

The next step is to locate the black 3L beams that have...

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