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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)

Activating the bird

This is just short sample code to get your bird started. You can continuously tinker with your code, changing various settings in the code as well as on the bird to get the bird working the way you choose.

While tinkering, here are some things I tried and found that I liked:

  • Adjust the pins of the blue beams connected to the medium motors for different wing angles and movements.
  • Adjust how the eyes blink, changing the light patterns.

Remember, the beauty of imagination and creativity is taking new learning and transforming it into whatever you desire. Let's explore some other ideas to spark your imagination.