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Build and Code Creative Robots with LEGO BOOST

Build and Code Creative Robots with LEGO BOOST

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

Build and Code Creative Robots with LEGO BOOST

4.2 (5)
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.
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Chapter 5: Getting into Gear – My First Geared Robot

A wheel with teeth on it is called a gear. A gear is used for various applications, including the following:

  • Changing the speed of an object
  • Changing the direction of the force that's being applied
  • Changing the torque of an object

Whether it is your parents' car or their bike, vehicles use gears to move. Gears are used in almost all machines, mechanisms, and robots. You can find at least one application of gears in your printer, machine tools such as drills, industrial robots, packaging machines, and so on. The most common example of where you can find gears is in the wall clock in your home! The hours, minutes, and seconds hands are all interconnected with the help of complex gear mechanisms.

In this chapter, you will learn about various concepts surrounding gears, such as gear ratios and torque, by performing some useful hands-on experiments. We will be covering the following topics:

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