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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

Making it your own

I can't wait to see how you design your guitar and how you play it. Here are a few other ideas that you could use to make your own custom guitar:

  • You could use the play sound block and import your sounds. Using the Record sound option, you could pull power chords from the internet and record them to yourIntelligent Hub. Using the Edit sound option allows you to further customize the sound.
  • If you are talented, you could record yourself playing the actual chords/notes and pull that into the code.

    The Cat Meow 1 sound is shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 4.103 – Be creative and develop some unique sounds

  • You could also experiment with using a block—such as the change pitch block—to change the pitch of a sound if the distance sensor is triggered or you tap the Intelligent Hub, or maybe add a motor and spin the motor.

    Here's an example of the pitch effect being changed:

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