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Smart Robotics with LEGO MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor

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Product type Book
Published in May 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800568402
Pages 438 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Aaron Maurer Aaron Maurer
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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 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

Make it your own

Now, it is time to hand the robot over to you. This is where you can take what you have built so far and customize the robot to your liking. Plenty of pieces have been left in the bin for you to design aesthetic features and apply new approaches to make your robot more intuitive, and there are plenty of coding options you can utilize to take the robot to the next level.

Here are a few ideas to consider:

  • The kit itself is limited in terms of the sensors that can be plugged into the Intelligent Hub. If you have another sensor from another kit or SPIKE Prime, then you could add a distance sensor, force sensor, or even a color sensor to the pack to create another decision point in the code so that when the robot senses danger from behind, it can counter. Currently, the robot is dependent on being strong enough to handle an attack from the back to counter and win.
  • If you wanted to take a different approach, what if you designed a device that, when the robot...
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