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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 this chapter, you explored how to build a robot that can compete in sumo competitions. You built out some attachments to coordinate with sensors so that your robot can make decisions and respond to an opponent in the field. The robot capitalized on a few standard strategies involving being low to the ground, allowing it to push an opponent by lifting them up.

Finally, we explored the coding by using code stacks to make decisions using a variable named action. This allows you to make a more precise decision-making robot.

In the next chapter, you will explore another robot that will succeed in another type of competition built for speed – the dragster!