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... devices, 154
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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Resources • Appendix A 565
Andy’s LEGO MINDSTORMS Ideas (www.artilect.co.uk /lego/ )
Andy created a rob...
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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, ... controlled condi-
tions.You can find our results in Table 2.1.
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Figure 2.17 Pulleys Connected with a Belt
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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 ... Group at MIT devised the first programmable brick, whose con-
cepts led to the development of the LEGO MINDSTORMS line.
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... 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
Reference. See LEGO Users ... 334
Turtle Graphics, 442
Twelve-legged walker, 298
Two-byte messaging system, 454
Two-legged robots, 284
Two-word commands, 168
U
Ultimate Accessory Set, 50, 71, 161
Ultra...
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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
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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, ... accepted source: the LUGNET LEGO Parts Reference
(see Appendix A for the URL to the site).
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Figure 5.2 Alternating Plates and Beams
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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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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 ... are
memory- and time-consuming when computed by a program, especially when
you want to use a large number of values.
Now, there is a particular class of weighted averages that can...