Hacking Your LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Kit - John Baichtal, James Floyd Kelly

Hacking Your LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Kit

Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2015
Que Corporation,U.S. (Verlag)
978-0-7897-5538-4 (ISBN)
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In this full-color, step-by-step tutorial, top-maker and best-selling author John Baichtal shows students how to transcend Mindstorms’ limits as they build five cutting-edge robotics projects.
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.

 

You’ll discover just how much you can do with only the parts that came with your kit–and how much farther you can go with extremely low-cost add-ons like Arduino and Raspberry Pi. You’ll 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 you’re ready for advanced techniques, Baichtal explains them in plain English.


Here’s just some of what you’ll learn how to do:

 



Build a drawing Plotter Bot that gyrates to draw new patterns
Hack Mindstorms’ wires–and 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 robot–and hook up an altimeter to track its height

 

This book is not authorized or endorsed by the LEGO® Group.

 

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John Baichtal has written or edited more than a dozen books, including the award-winning Cult of Lego (2011, No Starch Press), Make: LEGO and Arduino Projects (2012, Maker Media) with Adam Wolf and Matthew Beckler, Robot Builder (2014, Que), and Basic Robot Building with LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0 (2012, Que), as well as Building Your Own Drones (2015, Que). His most recent book is Maker Pro (2014, Maker Media), a collection of essays and interviews describing life as a professional maker. John lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with his wife and three children.

Chapter 1 Introduction 1

Hacking Mindstorms 2

Chapter Topics 6

Chapter 2 Project: Plotter Bot 7

Parts List 8

Building the Plotter Bot 9

Program the Plotter Bot 43

  Moving the Motors 44

  A Simple Program 45

  Resetting the X Axis 47

  Hacking Opportunities 49

Summary 49

Chapter 3 Hacking LEGO I: Connections 51

Mindstorms Wires Explained 51

  Inside the Mindstorms Wire 52

  Hacking Mindstorms Wires 53

Exploring Wireless Options 56

  Infrared Sensor and Beacon 56

  Bluetooth 57

  Hacking Wireless 58

Summary 62

Chapter 4 Project: Remote-Controlled Crane 63

Parts List 64

Building the Crane 65

Programming the Crane 93

Controlling the Crane with Infrared 98

Using Your Phone’s Commander App 98

Summary 104

Chapter 5 Hacking LEGO II: Alternate Controllers 105

Microcontrollers and Microcomputers 106

  Arduino 106

  Raspberry Pi 108

  BeagleBone Black 110

  But Why? 112

Example Projects 114

  Book Reader 114

  Mini Tank 115

  Chocolate Milk Maker 116

  Ball Counting Robot 117

  Rolling Alarm Robot 118

  BeagleBone Black Robot 119

Programing Environments 120

  LeJos 121

    RobotC 121

  Monobrick 121

  ev3dev 121

Summary 122

Chapter 6 Project: Robot Flower 123

Robot Flower Mindstorms Build 124

  Parts List 124

  Steps 125

  Program the Robot Flower 146

Substituting the Arduino 150

  Quick and Dirty Arduino 151

  Parts 152

  Steps 153

  Programming the Arduino 154

Summary 155

Chapter 7 Hacking LEGO III: Create Your Own LEGO Parts 157

Designing Your Own Parts 158

  Check Your Dimensions 159

  Create the Design File 160

  Output and Iterate 161

Finding Designs 161

  Thingiverse 162

  LDraw 163

  SketchUp Warehouse 163

Outputting Your Own Parts 164

  CNC Mill 164

  Laser Cutter 167

  3D Printer 170

  Tip: Parametric 3D Models 175

Summary 176

Chapter 8 Project: Ball Contraption 177

Building the Contraption 178

  Parts List 178

  Steps 179

Program the Contraption 224

Creating Your Own Parts 225

  The Baseplate 226

  The Gear 233

Summary 237

Chapter 9 Hacking LEGO IV: Add-on Electronics 239

Motors and Wheels 240

  Motor Driver 240

  Omni-Wheels 240

  8-Channel Servo Controller 241

  Hub-ee Wheels 242

  Linear Actuator 242

  Servo-Actuated Pneumatic Valve 243

Lighting Systems 244

  RGB LED Modules 244

  Light Strands 245

Sensors 246

  Grove Sensor Adapter 246

  dGPS 246

  Proximity Sensor 247

  Pixy and Pixy Adapter 248

  Sensor Mux 249

  Absolute IMU-ACG 250

  dPressure Sensor 251

  Thermal Infrared Sensor 252

NXT and Education Electronics 252

  Pneumatics Add-On Set 252

  NXT Light Sensor 253

  NXT Temperature Sensor 253

  NXT Sound Sensor 254

  NXT Ultrasonic 255

Control Systems 255

  Relay Driver 256

  sBrick Control System 256

  PlayStation Controller Interface 257

  NXTBee Wireless Board 258

Summary 258

Chapter 10 Project: Flagpole Climber 259

Building the Flagpole Climber 260

  Parts List 260

  Building Steps 262

  Programming the Pole Climber 288

  Installing the Ultrasonic Sensor 289

  Programming the Sensor 290

Swapping in the BrickPi 291

  Raspberry Pi Quick Start 292

  Adding the RPi and BrickPi 292

  Parts List 294

  Steps 294

  Tip: Troubleshooting 301

Summary 302

Glossary 303

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Erscheint lt. Verlag 14.12.2015
Sprache englisch
Maße 179 x 231 mm
Gewicht 430 g
Themenwelt Informatik Theorie / Studium Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
Technik Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
ISBN-10 0-7897-5538-6 / 0789755386
ISBN-13 978-0-7897-5538-4 / 9780789755384
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