E-grāmata: Hacking Your LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Kit

EV3 without limits!

 

Build 5 amazing robotics projects that take DIY to a whole new level!

 

You can do way more with your LEGO Mindstorms EV3 kit than anyone ever told you! In this full-color, step-by-step tutorial, top-maker and best-selling author John Baichtal shows you how to transcend Mindstorms limits as you build five cutting-edge robotics projects.

 

Youll discover just how much you can do with only the parts that came with your kitand how much farther you can go with extremely low-cost add-ons like Arduino and Raspberry Pi. Youll learn how to reprogram your Mindstorms Intelligent Brick to add additional hardware options and create more complex programs.

 

Hundreds of full-color, step-by-step photos teach you every step, every skill. Whenever youre ready for advanced techniques, Baichtal explains them in plain English.



Heres just some of what youll learn how to do:

 





Build a drawing Plotter Bot that gyrates to draw new patterns Hack Mindstorms wiresand control robots without wires Create a remote-controlled crane, and operate it from your smartphone Use the EV3 brick to control third-party electronic modules of all kinds Replace the EV3 brick with smarter, more flexible Arduino, Raspberry Pi, or BeagleBone Black hardware Build a robotic flower whose petals open and close based on time of day Use third-party sensors to build robots that can sense practically anything

Load an alternate operating system onto your EV3 brick 3D print, laser, and mill your own perfect LEGO parts Create ball contraptions, and extend them with your own custom parts Make a pole-climbing robotand hook up an altimeter to track its height

 

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