Building Robots With Lego Mindstorms

Simulating Flight

Solutions in this chapter:

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Introducing the Forces Involved in Flight

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Designing the Simulator Project

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Building the Hardware

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Programming the Simulator

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Operating the Simulator

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Downsizing the Project

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Upsizing the Project

Chapter 24

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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 flying machine.The project described in

this chapter is a rather ambitious variation:We want to simulate flight. ...