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Building Robots With Lego Mindstorms
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Building Robots With Lego Mindstorms

by Mario Ferrari
December 2001
Intermediate to advanced
448 pages
18h 49m
English
Syngress
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364 Chapter 18 • Replicating Renowned Droids
The head mechanism is nearly identical to the one we designed for R2-D2:
A pulley-belt system rotates a worm gear, which engages a 24t.A cam closes a
touch sensor when the head is centered (Figure 18.16).
We got sentimental and rebuilt for Johnny Five the same head we designed
together in 1998 for one of our first MINDSTORMS projects, called S3 (see
Figure 18.17).
NOTE
Refer to the earlier section on programming the R2-D2-style droid when
programming the Johnny Five robot—the two models can be driven by
the same software.
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Figure 18.15 Johnny Five Bottom View
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ISBN: 9781928994671