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Design Innovative Robots with LEGO SPIKE Prime

By : Aaron Maurer
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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)

Summary

In summary, we explored how to make a mechanism powered by a motor to give the movement of wings of a bird in flight. You explored some new build techniques by using some of the basic elements that are found in the kit to help give a more realistic movement of the legs moving with the head while flying.

Finally, we explored the coding by using code stacks to make decisions. The eyes and head move if the power of motor C is not at 0. Once this motor stops, so do the head and eyes.

In the next chapter, you will explore building another robot by having a go at perhaps the most popular build idea – the sumobot.