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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

Time for a challenge

Challenge #1

Attach the external motor to this robot on the top and build an arm that can hit the tennis ball. Now, perform the following setup:

Figure 16.5 – Route setup

Solve the following tasks:

  1. Follow the line until the first ball. Now, hit the ball and clear the robot's path to reach the next stop. Change the BOOST Hub color to red.
  2. Now, follow the line to the second ball and hit that ball as well. Change the BOOST Hub color to blue.
  3. Reach the stopping place and play a sound of your choice.

The robot must finish this challenge accurately each time. While following the line, you must focus on accuracy instead of speed, as the most important element in such cases is the accuracy of the tasks solved, followed by time. You can play around with the speed of this robot and see how quickly you can complete this challenge with the utmost accuracy.