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Learning Lego Mindstorms EV3

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Product type Book
Published in Jan 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781783985029
Pages 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Gary Garber Gary Garber
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters close

Learning LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. Engineering Notebook 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

Switch or two-level controller


We will now use a case structure to add a correction to the turns. In the EV3 language, a case structure or if…then…else statement is called a Switch block. The Switch can be controlled by sensors and other logic statements. Although you typically will have only two cases, you could add several other branches to the case structure. Each branch of the Switch is called a case statement and can contain several programming blocks. We will use the Gyro and rotation sensors to define the case to try and "zigzag" onto the exact 90-degree angle to produce a square. In the following screenshot, you can see the entire code. As this program is extensive, it is worth noting how the wires are used to organize the code into rows, so you can see the entire program on one screen at the same time:

Initially, we asked the Gyro Sensor to only wait until it turned 90 degrees on each leg of our square. Now we will adjust our code to ask the robot to stop turning when it reaches...

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