Chapter 2. Mechanical Design
In this chapter, we will build and program several models to demonstrate the basic principles of mechanical design. We will:
- Explore the idea of mechanical advantage
- Learn how you can increase either speed or torque using different combinations of gears
- Build gearboxes with motors
- Use the spur gears, beveled gears, and worm gears
- Write a program to spin the motors a set number of rotations
- Use the display on the EV3 brick
All of the models in this chapter can be built with both the EV3 Home Edition and EV3 Educational Edition kits.
Mechanical advantage
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