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Learning Lego Mindstorms EV3

You're reading from   Learning Lego Mindstorms EV3 Build and create interactive, sensor-based robots using your LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 kit

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783985029
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Learning LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Engineering Notebook FREE CHAPTER 2. Mechanical Design 3. Drive Train and Chassis 4. Sensors and Control 5. Interacting with EV3 6. Output from EV3 7. Advanced Programming 8. Advanced Programming and Control 9. Experiment Software and Data Logging 10. Other Programming Languages 11. Communication between Robots 12. Advanced Robot – Gyro Boy Index

The main program


The Gyro Boy project does contain several My Blocks in addition to the main program. I will explain these My Blocks later in the chapter. In the project, the main program is called 001. There are two separate parts of the 001 program. There is the main program, Loop M, which controls the robot, and the Control Loop, BHV, which looks for feedback from the sensors.

We will first examine the main program Loop. In the following screenshot, we can see an Infinite Loop block titled M. Inside the loop, several My Blocks are called to execute the various subroutines. Instead of one long horizontal line of blocks as shown in the previous screenshot, I have rearranged the Loop block M into several rows. In this way, we can view the entire code on one screen.

The main program loop M repeats each time the robot is set up upright to begin running. The RST My Block resets several variables that will be used in the program to zero, and also resets the Gyro Sensor, the motor shaft encoders...

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