Summary

In this chapter, you explored the concepts of gears, sensors, making various decisions based on feedback, and how to use simple engineering principles to build an effective robot. This chapter was focused on providing you with building and coding concepts related to how you can use the different components that are available in the Robot Inventor Kit, as this will help you build a strong sumobot model with high torque and stability via gearing mechanisms. Additionally, you used sensors to trigger the different actions of your sumobot. This ensures that you will have success in battles. You did this by identifying the border of the arena and stopping the sumobot from falling off the edge, as well as using the distance sensor to activate attack mode when your competition is within striking distance.

Now, it is time to engage in a battle. Find a friend, foe, or local competition and see how you do. Feel free to battle other types of robots as well. There are so many ideas,...