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Build and Code Creative Robots with LEGO BOOST

By : Ashwin Shah
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Build and Code Creative Robots with LEGO BOOST

By: Ashwin Shah

Overview of this book

LEGO BOOST is a feature-rich creative toolbox that helps kids to develop science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills in a fun way. The LEGO BOOST kit consists of motors, sensors, and more than 840 LEGO pieces to bring various multifunctional robots to life. This book will take you on an interesting and enjoyable journey where you will have fun building robots while developing your problem-solving and logical thinking skills. This book is an end-to-end guide that will take you from a beginner to expert level of robot building with LEGO BOOST and Scratch. Starting with the unboxing and a brief introduction to LEGO BOOST, you'll quickly get your first robotic model up and running. You'll understand how to use the electronic and non-electronic components and have fun building a range of intriguing robotics projects with increasing complexity and advanced functionality. Throughout the book, you'll work on a variety of amazing projects, such as building your own R2D2, a fictional character from Star Wars, that will pique your curiosity to learn robotics and help you explore the full potential of the LEGO BOOST kit. Once you've had fun working with the projects, you'll be introduced to an interesting challenge for you to solve by yourself! By the end of this book, you'll have gained the skills to build creative robotics projects with the LEGO BOOST creative toolbox, and have built on your logical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
14
Bonus Chapters

The importance and efficient usage of various pegs

To build your robot, you will have to connect different pieces to each other. As we use nuts and bolts in real life to connect two things, we will be using pegs in the BOOST kit for connections.

Tip

Always use at least two pegs to make any connection sturdy! Do you know that the two module pegs are of two different types? The one in black is a friction peg and the one in gray is a frictionless peg.

As you can see in the following photo, both the LEGO pieces connected with a single peg are not sturdy. They can move easily. This is not the kind of connection we would like to have in our robot, right?


Figure 1.6 – Single-peg connection

In the following photo, we can see that both the LEGO pieces are now connected with two pegs! The structure is sturdy – the kind of connection that we shall need in our robot:

Two-Peg Connection

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