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Smart Robotics with LEGO MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor

You're reading from   Smart Robotics with LEGO MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor Learn to play with the LEGO MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor kit and build creative robots

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800568402
Length 438 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: History of Mindstorms 2. Chapter 2: Getting Started with the Robot Inventor Kit FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Building an Industrial Robot Claw 4. Chapter 4: Building a LEGO Guitar 5. Chapter 5: Building a Scorpion 6. Chapter 6: Building a Solid Sumobot 7. Chapter 7: Building a Dragster 8. Chapter 8: Building an Egg and Ornament Decorator 9. Chapter 9: Creating Plankton from SpongeBob SquarePants – Part 1 10. Chapter 10: Creating Plankton from SpongeBob SquarePants – Part 2 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Writing the code

The coding for the guitar is based on a very simple premise but allows for a complete individual interpretation on how you want to play the guitar and how you want the guitar to sound.

The program we are writing as an example will showcase some possibilities, but utimately, you should be brave and tinker around to get the guitar to sound how you want. The beauty of music is to express yourself the way you want to. This is your moment! Combining coding and music is an exciting combination of awesome.

The ports

There is not a lot to plug in for this build. You will connect the distance sensor into port D. You will also add the color sensor plugged into port C.

The following screenshot illustrates this:

Figure 4.93 – Port view in the MINDSTORMS software

The basic layout of the program will follow this structure for each of the colored items on your guitar fretboard.

You will start by adding the yellow event block called when...

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