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468 Chapter 24 • Simulating Flight
Introduction
LEGO robots cannot fly.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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454 Chapter 23 • Drawing and Writing...
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... triad 3-4 -5 (see
the third line in Table 1.1). If you multiply each side of the triangle by a
whole number, you still get a valid triad. By 2: 6-8 -1 0 (the one of our
first example), by 3: 9-1 2-1 5, ... transfer of motion between two pul-
leys.This is, in fact, the purpose of belts: to connect a pair of pulleys. LEGO belts
are designed to perfectly match the race of LEGO pulle...
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... Straight 134
Building a Dual Differential Drive 136
Building a Skid-Steer Drive 138
Building a Steering Drive 140
Building a Tricycle Drive 144
Building a Synchro Drive 146
Understand the
Benefits ... tolerant of your hobby!
■
LEGO is cost-effective You can use and reuse your LEGO parts as
needed to produce many generations of robots. And should you ever even-
tually tire of...
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... inte-
gration. Nevertheless, it’s a good general building practice, especially when con-
structing very large robots.
The same principle applies to your most important components: motors, sen-
sors, ... common
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Figure 4.1 The Touch Sensor
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Reading Sensors • Chapter 4 81
If you want to learn more about how LEGO (and non -LEGO) senso...
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... 7
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Becoming Mobile
Solutions in this chapter:
■
Building a Simple Differential Drive
■
Building a Dual Differential Drive
■
Building a Skid-Steer Drive
■
Building ... responding to mes-
sages while looking for a light source.
Summary
In this chapter, you took some first steps on your path to programming LEGO
robots. We started describing th...
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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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... sections.
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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 ... an
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Figure 13. 4 Three Nonaligned Stations Allow for Positioning with No
Ambiguities Using Distances
Figure 13. 5 VOR-Like Systems Allow Positioning through the...
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... making of two-legged (biped) robots requires a very careful
design.A little trick is to build U-shaped legs that partly interlace, providing a
large support for the robot (Figure 15.9). LEGO suggested ... 1991).
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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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Building Robot...
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... Replicating
Renowned Droids
Solutions in this chapter:
■
Building an R2-D2-Style Droid
■
Building a Johnny Five-Style Droid
Chapter 18
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Unconventional Vehicles ... 16.14).We used 36 2 x 2 and two 1 x 4 tiles (available as spare parts at
the LEGO Online Shop). If you are open to employing non -LEGO parts, you can
build the skis from other mater...