We will be building a simple gear train with two gears powered by the large motor. The gears we are using are double bevel gears. Normally, when you think of a gear, you are thinking of a straight or a spur gear. The LEGO double bevel gear is essentially a spur gear in the middle, with beveled edges on both sides. Not only does this allow you to combine two double bevel gears aligned parallel to each other as we are in this section, but you can also combine them at right angles, as we will see later in this chapter. I chose this particular set of gears because they are included in both the Home Edition and Educational Edition kits. However, you could build a gear train like this using any set of dissimilar gears. The small gear has 12 teeth, and the large gear has 36 teeth. The motor will power the larger gear. We will find that every time the large gear spins once, the small gear will spin three times. So we are gaining speed, but at the cost of losing torque. This...
Learning Lego Mindstorms EV3
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Learning Lego Mindstorms EV3
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Overview of this book
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Learning LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
Engineering Notebook
Mechanical Design
Drive Train and Chassis
Sensors and Control
Interacting with EV3
Output from EV3
Advanced Programming
Advanced Programming and Control
Experiment Software and Data Logging
Other Programming Languages
Communication between Robots
Advanced Robot – Gyro Boy
Index
Customer Reviews