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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

Summary

In this chapter, you built a race car with a steering wheel and navigated various race tracks using the coding blocks that you learned about in the previous chapters. You also enhanced your building skills by attaching the color sensor to the front of the robot on your own to solve this chapter's challenge. You can now apply advanced coding concepts to build and code completely autonomous cars, as well as other robotics applications with sensors mounted on them. With this, we have come to the end of our exciting journey of learning how to build and code using the LEGO BOOST kit.

In the next chapter, you will be solving a challenge without any guidance provided on how to build and code the robot. This will help you figure out what level your learning is at regarding this kit and will help you learn more if you're stuck on something. It is highly recommended that you go through this and the previous chapters before you move on to the next chapter. All the best!

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