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Learning Lego Mindstorms EV3

By : Gary Garber
Book Image

Learning Lego Mindstorms EV3

By: Gary Garber

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Learning LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
10
Other Programming Languages
Index

Chapter 3. Drive Train and Chassis

In this chapter, we will build a moveable robot. The robot will include a common chassis that will work with both the Home Edition and the Educational Edition of the EV3 kit. To keep these robots simple, I am not including gear reductions, but that would be a natural extension using what you learned in Chapter 2, Mechanical Design. All of these robots have a low center of mass, and a wide chassis, which makes it easy to use them for line tracking. The chassis will consist of:

  • A frame

  • The EV3 brick

  • Motors

I will provide instructions for attaching different methods of locomotion to these chassis depending on your version of the EV3 kit. The robots include:

  • Wheels

  • Skids

  • Caster ball

  • Treads