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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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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 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

Playing the guitar

The beauty of Bluetooth is that you can continuously tinker with your code while you play your guitar and you do not need to be tethered to the computer. The music comes from the computer, so make sure your audio is turned up.

While playing the guitar, you can adjust how the music plays. I tried several options to find what I liked and share them with you here:

  • Tweak your code so that the sensor plays the color it sees right away. The downside is that the guitar plays every note if you need to skip a color.
  • Instead of using the right-button press to play a note, I used the distance sensor to activate the notes. I liked this at first, but I am too clumsy and kept triggering the sensor when I did not mean to. The distance sensor is shown here:

Figure 4.102 – Using the distance sensor to trigger sound

  • I used the tap feature of the Intelligent Hub when it is tapped, the note would play. Again, I found a button press...
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