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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

Always break your bigger problem into multiple small problems and solve them one after another. This will help you to solve tasks quickly and easily.

Activity #1

Write some code so that the robot can reach the desired school from the starting point. Drop the medical essentials at this place.

Activity #2

Now, write some code so that the robot will travel from the school to the desired home and drop the food there.

Activity #3

Now, write some code so that the robot will travel from the desired home to the hospital and drop the medical essentials there.

Activity #4

Reach the stop position and stop the robot.

Activity #5

Now, club all these small programs together and try to crack the complete challenge. Your code must be accurate enough that it does not need any human intervention from start to stop. Try to solve this challenge slowly at first. Eventually, increase the speed of the robot and try to crack this challenge in as little time as...