log 002: closer look and test runs on the Blast Robot

 here is our Robot named Blast from the last building session.

cool and modern-looking robot

there are serval more exercises/tasks,  you can do with Robot with instructions from the App. 2 plus of the tasks also available as python program.

Examples of activities that come with the app by default

the scratch programs are really cool and easy to use. you can drag a program block onto canvas and double-click on it if the robot is already connected via Bluetooth. it will perform the action of the block right away. very intuitive! 

But we use python programming, its a good learning and gives later more possibilities. 

here is a little comparison of the same program in Scratch and Python:

It seems the python is twice as long because of the display animation code in form of a "Hexa" looking code (green). Wired choice and I still have to figure out how the animation editor with python, but I will explore the python programming myself in the next robot build.

One cool feature of the robot, you can open the front plate of its chest and you can see the mechanic in action. With the open front plate from his upper body makes him like Johnny 5 from "Short Circuit" movie.

with the front plate open, you see the gears working.

 

 

One Issue with this lego set and this robot build. you can only rotate the head and both arms at the same time because the inventor sets only come with 4 motors. so we have 2 motors for each leg and 1 motor to activate the darts. this leaves 1 motor for both arms and the head.

the Robot Dart shooter on the right arm 

I think we are done for now with the Blast Robot, we come back later to it and modified it by adding 2 more extra motors you can buy on the Lego Website. It's a really rad-looking model and it would be slick to add more features to the base model. 

But now it will be time to try the next robot build which comes with Set.