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Design Innovative Robots with LEGO SPIKE Prime

By : Aaron Maurer
5 (1)
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)

Building the guitar

You will build the guitar in sections. Each section will provide a basic framework for the guitar, but please keep in mind that with all the builds, you have the space and opportunities to build it the way you want. In terms of the guitar, the key pieces to customizing the guitar will be the body of the guitar, the top of the neck of the guitar, and the LED lights. Additionally, when you get to the coding, you can really fine-tune it to have the guitar sound just the way you want it to sound.

Let's get started with the building.

Assembling the guitar body

This is where you get to spice up the guitar to your liking. For the sake of this example, you will build a basic outline of a guitar, but please know that from here you can design it to your own liking:

  1. Begin by adding four black connector pins to each of the corners of a yellow 11x19 base plate:

    Figure 3.2 – Black connector pins on the base plate

  2. Attach the second yellow 11x19...