The LEGO® MINDSTORMS EV3 Idea Book
181 Simple Machines and Clever Contraptions
Published on 7. November 2014
232 pages
978-1-59327-618-8 (ISBN)
Description
The LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3 Idea Book explores dozens of creative ways to build amazing mechanisms with the LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 set. Each model includes a list of the required parts, minimal text, and colorful photographs from multiple angles so you can re-create it without the need for step-by-step instructions.
You'll learn to build cars with real suspension, steerable crawlers, ball-shooters, grasping robotic arms, and other creative marvels. Each model demonstrates simple mechanical principles that you can use as building blocks for your own creations.
Best of all, every part you need to build these machines comes in one LEGO set (#31313)!
You'll learn to build cars with real suspension, steerable crawlers, ball-shooters, grasping robotic arms, and other creative marvels. Each model demonstrates simple mechanical principles that you can use as building blocks for your own creations.
Best of all, every part you need to build these machines comes in one LEGO set (#31313)!
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Yoshihito Isogawa
The LEGO® MINDSTORMS EV3 Idea Book
Book
11/2014
1st Edition
No Starch Press
€20.00
Article in reprint
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Yoshihito Isogawa is a LEGO luminary with 46 years of building experience. In addition to running Isogawa Studio, Inc., he regularly holds LEGO workshops, lectures at schools and science museums, and creates LEGO models for events and exhibitions. He is the author of the popular LEGO Technic Idea Book series (No Starch Press), as well as other Japanese-language LEGO titles.
Content
- Intro
- Basic Mechanisms
- Gear ratios
- Compound gear systems
- Changing the angle of rotation
- Using worm drives
- Swinging mechanisms
- Reciprocating mechanisms
- Cam mechanisms
- Intermittent motion
- Transmitting rotation with rubber bands
- Transmitting rotation with caterpillar treads
- Transmitting rotation over a long distance
- Off-center axes of rotation
- Changeover mechanisms using rotational direction
- Universal joints
- Vehicles
- Driving wheels with a motor
- Driving wheels with two motors
- Caster wheels
- Crawlers
- Suspended wheels
- Steering
- Moving Without Tires
- Walking machines
- Moving like an inchworm
- Moving through vibration
- Arms, Wings, and Other Movements
- Flapping wings
- Gripping fingers
- Lifting things
- Shooting things
- Automatic doors
- Raking up or out
- Creating wind
- Swinging a pendulum
- Using attachments to change motion
- Meshing gears diagonally
- Changing the angle of rotation freely
- Sensors
- Ideas for using the touch sensor
- Ideas for using the buttons of the Intelligent EV3 Brick
- Ideas for using the color sensor
- Something Extra
- Using the Pythagorean theorem
- Try building something handy!
