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Formula EV3: a racing robot

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Now that you’ve learned how to program the EV3 to control of the rear motors as the car’s engine and the motor in the
motors and sensors, you can begin making more sophisticated front as the car’s steering wheel.
robots, such as autonomous vehicles, robotic animals, and Once you’ve built the race car, you’ll create several My
complex machines. This chapter presents the Formula EV3 Blocks to make it easy to program the car to drive and steer.
Race Car, shown in Figure 12-1. Then you’ll combine these blocks in one program that lets you
Unlike the EXPLOR3R you built earlier, the race car uses control the car remotely and another program that makes the
three motors. Two Large Motors in the rear make the car drive, robot drive around autonomously and avoid obstacles. Finally,
while the Medium Motor lets you steer the front wheels. Think you’ll be challenged to add more functionality to the design and
to make it race faster using gears.

Figure 12-1: The Formula EV3 Race Car

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building the
Formula EV3
Race Car
Build the race car by following the instructions on the subse-
quent pages. Before you start building, select the pieces you’ll
need to complete the robot, shown in Figure 12-2.

Figure 12-2: The pieces needed to build the Formula EV3 Race Car

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