Competitive MINDSTORMS: A Complete Guide to Robotic Sumo using LEGO(r) MINDSTORMS
Competitive MINDSTORMS™ combines the LEGO MINDSTORMS™ Robotics Invention System (RIS) with the game of robotic sumo. It shows you how to design, build, program, and unleash autonomous creations of amazing potential: sumo-bots. With these robots, you’ll push, ram, outwit, and baffle your opponent’s sumo-bot on a robotic sumo arena. This is the book that will help make sure it’s your sumo-bot left standing when the battle is over.From the lightning-fast Zip-Bam-Bot to the heavyweight Gargantuan-Bot, Competitive MINDSTORMS™ offers seven complete projects and plenty of tricks to widen your MINDSTORMS™ horizons. Illustrated, easy-to-follow building instructions guide you through advanced construction techniques, using pieces from the RIS and its expansion packs. The downloadable programs presented in this book demonstrate basic to extreme sumo-bot programming, and you’ll find thorough coverage of how to run and test each one.Competitive MINDSTORMS™ reveals techniques for competing in each of the three different robotic sumo strategies it presents: small and fast, medium-class, and big sumo. You’ll find out the purpose of counter-rotating wheels, see how to design slopes--also known as inclined planes or wedges--to run underneath an opponent, learn how to effectively program your sumo-bots, discover the undocumented secrets of successfully participating in and hosting robotic sumo events, and much more.Competitive MINDSTORMS™ teaches you essential and advanced robotic sumo concepts and techniques. And in no time at all, you’ll be the most feared LEGO MINDSTORMS™ robotic sumo contestant for miles around.