Table of Contents
Introduction
In this session, we’ll build a very simple solar car (meaning a little car that gets powered with a solar panel) and then we’ll hook up our spike prime coding platform on top of it and have some fun coding
Build Solar Car
First, let’s build our solar car as per the instruction here: Solar Vehicle (lego.com)
The building instructions are also available here:
Add our Spike Prime Kit
We want to have three functions
- Measure the space we have in front, so we stop before we run into something
- start and stop the car (we do this by opening/closing a lid over the solar panel 😉
- display the distance we have in front
In order to add our spike prime, we add the following things to our solar car
Distance sensor in the front
We simply hook this up to the solar panel left and right.
Instructions
Lid for the solar panel with motor and touch button
Something like this
Spike Prime Controller
Instructions
Final result
It’ll look something like this:
And it works 🙂
Spike Prime Software
