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Figure 1. 4 The LEGO TECHNIC Beam
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5 6 25 36 61 This doesn’t work.
3 8 9 64 73 This doesn’t work.
3 4 9 16 25 This works! 25 is 5 x 5.
15 8 22 5 64 28 9 This works too, though
28 9 is 17 x 17, ... (1 x 1, 1 hole, and 1 x 2, 2 holes) may help you (Figure 2. 9).
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Figure 2. 7 Vertical Matching of Gears
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Controlling Motors ã Chapter 3 51
a Control Center unit, you can safely use them to run your motors. Don’t
use non -LEGO electricity ... batteries. Remember that with
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Figure 3. 8 The LEGO MINDSTORMS Kit Remote Control
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1 14 Chapter 6 ã Programming the RCX
In designing a multitasking application, you are required to move from a
sequential, step-by-step flow to an event-driven ... 7
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Becoming Mobile
Solutions in this chapter:
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Building a Simple Differential Drive
■
Building a Dual Differential Dr...
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... some exam-
ples of what can be done with them, our assumption being that you continue to
use LEGO parts to build your robots, and the RCX to run them; thus, we’ll dis-
cuss the use of non -LEGO sensors ... plat-
form again and resumes a straight motion.
■
Tri-Star Wheel Drive The Tri-Star configuration has been designed
for high-mobility, all-terrain vehicles. Each “wheel” is actually an e...
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... discontinued the pro-
duction of air-powered models. Fortunately, LEGO pneumatic devices have been
recently reissued in a specific service pack (#5218) available through Shop-At-
Home or at the LEGO Internet ... not have LEGO pneumatic parts, or you
don’t have room on your robot to fit a pneumatic compressor plus a pressure
switch and some motor-driven valve switches.We’ve seen that RCX-t...
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Expanding the term A
n-1
we get:
A
n-1
= V
n-1
x w
1
+ A
n-2
x (1 – w
1
)
and substituting in the previous:
A
n
= V
n
x w
1
+ V
n-1
x w
1
x (1 – w
1
) + A
n-2
x (1 – w
1
)
2
Continuing ... sum,
too. Supposing it is 75 , sum now contains 146 + 75 = 221. Now you can com-
pute the average ave, which results in 221 / 3 = 73 .666…, and which is trun-
cated to 73 .The...
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Figure 15.5 A Four-Legged Robot with One Leg Lifted
Figure 15.6 A Four-Legged Robot with Two Legs Lifted
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Figure 15.15 Our Four-Legged Robot
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... Replicating
Renowned Droids
Solutions in this chapter:
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Building an R2-D2-Style Droid
■
Building a Johnny Five-Style Droid
Chapter 18
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Unconventional Vehicles ... body partly studs front,
partly studs right, and partly studs up (see Figure 16.19).
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Figure 16.17 Rear View of the Skier
Figure 16.18 Bottom View of the Skier
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don’t require many more parts than what you find in your MINDSTORMS box.
We built the Maze Runner robot entirely from MINDSTORMS parts, while the
Maze Solver robot used some ... third member of our small
group, came up with the idea of building a Tic-Tac-Toe machine, a robot able to
play a board version of the well-known game.We immediately felt it was the
right id...
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Introduction
LEGO robots cannot y.This is a fact you have to accept—there’s no way to build
any kind of pure -LEGO self-powered ... one
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Figure 24 .13 Cross-Section of the Pitch/Bank Mechanism
Figure 24.14 The Plane
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Constructing
Useful Stuff
Solutions in this chapter:
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Building a Floor Sweeper
■
Building a Milk Guard
■
Building a Plant Sprinkler
■
Designing ... Guard
■
Building a Plant Sprinkler
■
Designing Other Useful Robots
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Contests
Part III
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... (www-control.eng.cam.ac.uk/
sc10003/addon.html)
Stuart Crawshaw’s attempt to describe all the possible add-on sets for
LEGO MINDSTORMS.
LEGO Shop At Home (http://shop .lego. com/)
The official LEGO ... rotation sensors.
Chapter 5 Building Strategies
LEGO Engineering (http://british.nerp.net /lego/ index.html)
This helpful site includes a Building Tips section, too.
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Non -LEGO devices, 164
Non -LEGO electricity sources, 51
Non -LEGO parts, 163 , 323, 446
Non -LEGO sensors, 81, 164
Nonlinear systems, 226
Nonoriginal components, 367
Nonoriginal parts, addition, ... there.
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Andys LEGO MINDSTORMS Ideas (www.artilect.co.uk /lego/ )
Andy created a rob...
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Single-motor synchro drive, 175
Single-motor tricycle drives, 175
Single-stage geartrain, 40t gear attachment,
379
Sink the Ship, 438
Six-legged robots, 284
Six-legged steering robots, 293–299
SIZE ... 37
Parallelogram, 316
Parts, 22, 47, 143, 271, 293, 299. See also
Non -LEGO parts
acquisition, 154–163
addition. See Non-original parts
colors, choice, 160–161
purchasing, 161–163
Re...