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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 body of the dragster

  1. To begin the build of the rest of the body of the dragster, you will work on the opposite end to where the gears are located:

  2. Add an azure 7L beam across the medium motors using two black connector pins:

    Figure 6.11 – Building brace across motors

  3. Connect a purple 7x11 open frame to the azure 7L beam you installed in the preceding step using two black connector pins:

    Figure 6.12 – Adding an open frame to the build

  4. Add another purple 7x11 open frame to the dragster body using another two black connector pins:

    Figure 6.13 – Adding a second open frame to the build

  5. Connect an azure 7L beam to the end of the second purple 7x11 open frame using two black connector pins:

    Figure 6.14 – Adding a beam across the open frame

  6. Rotate your dragster so that you can see underneath the robot and locate where the purple 7x11 open frame connects to the main frame of the robot. Secure these together using two black T beams, connecting...