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Design Innovative Robots with LEGO SPIKE Prime

By : Aaron Maurer
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Book Image

Design Innovative Robots with LEGO SPIKE Prime

5 (1)
By: Aaron Maurer

Overview of this book

The new LEGO SPIKE Prime is one of the latest additions to the LEGO robotics line of products. This book will help you to enjoy building robots and understand how exciting robotics can be in terms of design, coding, and the expression of ideas. The book begins by taking you through a new realm of playful learning experiences designed for inventors and creators of any age. In each chapter, you'll find out how to build a creative robot, learn to bring the robot to life through code, and finally work with exercises to test what you've learned and remix the robot to suit your own unique style. Throughout the chapters, you'll build exciting new smart robots such as a handheld game, a robotic arm with a joystick, a guitar, a flying bird, a sumobot, a dragster, and a Simon Says game. By the end of this LEGO book, you'll have gained the knowledge and skills you need to build any robot that you can imagine.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Chapter 4: Building a Mechanical Bird

Biomimicry is the study and application of products, systems, mechanisms, and solutions to problems based on biological processes and functions found in nature. It is incredible what you can learn from plants and animals to find solutions to your own problems.

One of the many fascinating animals on our planet is the bird. It is a creature that has some features that are perfect for robot building and creating mechanisms. In this chapter, you are going to build a mechanical bird robot designed around the major features of this creature. You will be building wings and a body to look like a bird flying looking for prey.

Here is what your bird will look like by the end of this chapter:

Figure 4.1 – This is what your build will look like by the end of this chapter

In this chapter, we will break down the building and programming as follows:

  • Building the body frame of the mechanical bird
  • Building the...