Building Robots With Lego Mindstorms

396 Chapter 20 • Board Games

Don’t forget to add a melody to your program that plays when the robot

wins; a tune for defeat shouldn’t be necessary because it never loses (unless the

human player cheats!).

Improving Your Game

The hardware of the robot offers many possibilities for variations and improve-

ments. If you have enough racks, you can cover the side rails with them and use

gears in place of wheels, the latter having an unpleasant tendency to slip.

Using a third motor, you can equip your robot with pliers to carry and drop

its own pieces, as in our original version.The Mindfest TTT still needed the help

of a human assistant to load the piece in ...