You're reading from Build and Code Creative Robots with LEGO BOOST Unleash your creativity and imagination by building exciting robotics projects

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801075572

Length 428 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Scratch

Tools

Play

Concepts

Robotics

Author (1):

Ashwin Shah

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Introduction to the LEGO BOOST Kit

2. Chapter 2: Building Your First BOOST Robot – Tabletop Fan FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Moving Forward/Backward Without Wheels

4. Chapter 4: LEGO BOOST Rover

5. Chapter 5: Getting into Gear – My First Geared Robot

6. Chapter 6: Building a Forklift

7. Chapter 7: Building a Helicopter

8. Chapter 8: Building R2-D2

9. Chapter 9: Building an Automatic Entrance Door

10. Chapter 10: Building a Candy Dispenser Robot

11. Chapter 11: Building a Color-Sorter Conveyor Belt

12. Chapter 12: Building a BOOST Racing Car

13. Chapter 13: Final Challenge

14. Bonus Chapters

15. Chapter 14: The Grabbing Robot

16. Chapter 15: Obstacle Avoidance Robot

17. Chapter 16: The BOOST Humanoid

18. Chapter 17: The Moon Rover

19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Let's code the robot to lift different loads

Let's start coding this forklift. You will be using all three of the robot's motors for the first time, which is going to be quite exciting.

Activity #1

Mark the initial position of your load base, as well as the forklift robot. Ensure there's at least 30 cm distance between them and try to keep them in a straight line. Now, program your robot to move forward until it reaches the load. The robot must stop so that the forks go underneath the load base. Try to use rotations-based programming for the drive motors for accuracy. Please use the given space to write the algorithm.

Now that you are there, you need to pick up this load. To do so, you will have to move the load motor so that it is connected to port C. As you may recall, you can program your motor so that it moves for a few seconds. We discussed this in Chapter 2, Building Your First BOOST Robot – Tabletop Fan, and Chapter 3, Moving Forward/Backward...