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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

Building the scorpion claws

You will need the following pieces:

  • Two black double-bent beams
  • Two black round elbow connectors
  • Four blue axle pins

Start with the two black round elbow connectors. Add a blue axle pin to both sides of each of the black round elbow connectors. Add one of each to the black double-bent beams on the second hole of the long part of the beam, as illustrated in the following image:

Figure 5.42 – Building out the first part of the claws

Each of these will then connect to the 11L black beam on the sides of the robot using the fourth pin hole.

Next, locate the following parts:

  • Two black double-bent beams
  • Six blue axle connector pins
  • Two white axle connectors
  • Two black 90-degree axle pins
  • Two black connector pins
  • Two black 3L beams

Again, you will build two of the same parts for each side of the robot. Begin by adding a blue connector pin to the pin hole right before the...

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