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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

Time for a challenge

Challenge #1

Get your robot back in the gear up combination. Now, create a ramp using the resources available in your home. Try implementing a different height for this ramp and reach a point where your robot is no longer capable of going up that ramp in this gear up combination!

Figure 5.23 – Representation of the setup

The height of this ramp = ________ cm.

Now, change your gear combination, so that it's in the gear down combination and see whether it can cross this ramp. I am sure it will. This is because the robot is slower, but its torque is quite high! Can you find a height for this ramp where this robot can't climb, even when using the gear down combination?

The height of this ramp = _______ cm.

One major conclusion we can draw from this chapter is that when you try to gain one thing, you lose the other. For example, when you gain speed, you lose power and vice versa! It takes a lot of engineering prowess...