Building Robots With Lego Mindstorms

Robotic Animals

Solutions in this chapter:

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Creating a Mouse

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Creating a Turtle

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Creating Other Animals

Chapter 17

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Introduction

Trying to emulate animals in designing and constructing a LEGO robot is a fun

and instructive experience.You can approach the problem from different view-

points—for example, concentrating your attention on the behavior of the animal,

or on its shape; you can even create a pure fantasy animal or develop your inter-

pretation of some mythological creature.

In ...