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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

Let's code the robot to perform various tasks

Let's start coding this helicopter. Using the extra LEGO bricks from your BOOST kit, build the following:

  • A food element with orange LEGO bricks
  • A water element with blue LEGO bricks
  • A rescue equipment element with yellow LEGO bricks

Make sure that you don't use more than three bricks to build any element. This ensures that the element can be placed on the helicopter with ease and without adding too much load to it.

Activity #1

Program your helicopter to move forward for two rotations. While moving, it should also rotate its wings at 60% power for 3 seconds. You can also add the sound of a helicopter to make it more interesting. The sample code for the activity is given here:

Figure 7.47

As we mentioned previously, a helicopter is used for rescue purposes, military operations, intracity travel, and more. In this activity, we will take our helicopter on a rescue mission...