LEGO MINDSTORMS - Building Robots Part 15 pot

... (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. Reinard’s LEGO...

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... source: the LUGNET LEGO Parts Reference (see Appendix A for the URL to the site). Building Strategies • Chapter 5 85 Figure 5.2 Alternating Plates and Beams 174 _LEGO_ 05 10/25/01 3 :15 PM Page 85 Reading ... 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 component...

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... 7 117 174 _LEGO_ 07 10/25/01 3:19 PM Page 117 Becoming Mobile Solutions in this chapter: ■ Building a Simple Differential Drive ■ Building a Dual Differential Drive ■ Building a Skid-Steer Drive ■ Building ... any www.syngress.com 174 _LEGO_ 06 10/26/01 1:47 PM Page 98 114 Chapter 6 • Programming the RCX In designing a multitasking application, you are required to move from a sequenti...

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... 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 your LEGO pieces, they ... Build a Competitive Edge for Your Next Mindstorms Robotic Competition LEGO Mindstorms Building Robots with ® ™ 1 YEAR UPGRADE BUYER PROTECTION PLAN 174 _lego_ FC 11/11/01 3:...

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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, ... designed to work well in per- pendicular setups as well (Figure 2 .15) . Using Pulleys, Belts, and Chains The MINDSTORMS kit includes some pulleys and belts, two classes of compo...

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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. www.syngress.com 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 ... one at a www.syngress.com Figure 11.13 StudWhite, a LEGO Cubes Finder 174 _LEGO_ 11 10/26/01 5:10 PM Page 210 Six-Legged Steering Walker (Chapter 15) This hexapod walks keep...

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... (Figure 15. 33). www.syngress.com Figure 15. 32 The Left Leg Figure 15. 33 Bottom View 174 _LEGO_ 15 10/29/01 4:16 PM Page 301 290 Chapter 15 • Building Robots That Walk www.syngress.com Figure 15. 15 Our ... hole (Figure 15. 27). www.syngress.com Figure 15. 26 Rear View Figure 15. 27 Bottom View 174 _LEGO_ 15 10/29/01 4 :15 PM Page 297 302 Chapter 15 • Building Robots...

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... Replicating Renowned Droids Solutions in this chapter: ■ Building an R2-D2-Style Droid ■ Building a Johnny Five-Style Droid Chapter 18 349 174 _LEGO_ 18 10/29/01 4:28 PM Page 349 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...

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