Rhodes LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT ZOO!, Manual

Page 1: ...THE LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT ZOO an unofficial kid friendly guide to building robotic animals with LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT fay rhodes...

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Page 3: ...r Spiderbot is a walking eight legged spider that avoids objects turns and runs in forward or reverse Figure 5 1 Spiderbot The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Zoo Fay Rhodes isbn 978 1 59327 170 1 Available at fi...

Page 4: ...building spiderbot The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Zoo Fay Rhodes isbn 978 1 59327 170 1 Available at fine bookstores everywhere...

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Page 7: ...The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Zoo Fay Rhodes isbn 978 1 59327 170 1 Available at fine bookstores everywhere Place two beams on the long pins at the bottom 5 6...

Page 8: ...The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Zoo Fay Rhodes isbn 978 1 59327 170 1 Available at fine bookstores everywhere 7 flip 8...

Page 9: ...The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Zoo Fay Rhodes isbn 978 1 59327 170 1 Available at fine bookstores everywhere Place two beams on the long pins at the bottom 9 10...

Page 10: ...The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Zoo Fay Rhodes isbn 978 1 59327 170 1 Available at fine bookstores everywhere Attach 7 axles to the motors 11 12 flip bottom view...

Page 11: ...The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Zoo Fay Rhodes isbn 978 1 59327 170 1 Available at fine bookstores everywhere 13 14 flip...

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Page 13: ...The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Zoo Fay Rhodes isbn 978 1 59327 170 1 Available at fine bookstores everywhere 17 18 flip...

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Page 15: ...1 Available at fine bookstores everywhere Note that the pins are placed differently on this side than the other side NOTE These pictures are only a guide You might need to rearrange the place ment of...

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Page 17: ...27 170 1 Available at fine bookstores everywhere In step 24 insert an axle pin any color at the end of the beam Turn it at a right angle to slide it through the supporting shoulder beam The pin will k...

Page 18: ...iece pause now to test your robot s legs Now is the best time to test Spiderbot s legs Turn the spider on its back and remove the driving gears the small gears on the motor axles Now you can spin all...

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Page 20: ...MINDSTORMS NXT Zoo Fay Rhodes isbn 978 1 59327 170 1 Available at fine bookstores everywhere Step 28 shows you where these parts will go Wait to assemble them with the Ultrasonic Sensor in the next st...

Page 21: ...e second or third hole wiring connections Connect the motors that drive the legs to output ports B and C Connect the Ultra sonic Sensor to input port 4 programming spiderbot Let s write a program to m...

Page 22: ...the motors in the program Figure 5 3 Place another Loop block inside that loop but this time configure it as shown here an Ultrasonic Sensor looking for a distance of less than 30 centimeters Input p...

Page 23: ...he expansion trick from Chapter 4 pages 80 81 Add a Move block to the loop and click the lower left edge of the block to open the data hub The data hub is the bar hanging down from the Move block Figu...

Page 24: ...1 Available at fine bookstores everywhere To make the robot back up we ll add two Motor blocks Figure 5 7 Delete the Move block Settings for the C Motor block are shown here Figure 5 8 First add a Mot...

Page 25: ...erywhere Now we ll place the final Motor blocks This time we want the spider to turn so we ll direct both motors to turn in the same direction Figure 5 9 Add a Motor block under the B Motor block Use...

Page 26: ...The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Zoo Fay Rhodes isbn 978 1 59327 170 1 Available at fine bookstores everywhere Figure 5 11 Place the second Motor block below the B Motor block and configure it as shown here...

Page 27: ...and readjust the spider after step 25 you should be ready to download the programs and get your spider crawling NOTE If your spider moves in the wrong direction when you start it either switch the di...

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