{"id":965,"date":"2021-02-05T06:50:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T14:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=965"},"modified":"2021-02-04T15:44:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T23:44:35","slug":"high-tech-lego-projects-16-rule-breaking-inventions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/high-tech-lego-projects-16-rule-breaking-inventions\/","title":{"rendered":"High-Tech LEGO Projects: 16 Rule-Breaking Inventions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/hightechlego-595x744.jpg?resize=525%2C656&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"656\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13693\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2YJEvYW\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/6037\/9781718500259\">Bookshop<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781718500259?aff=anasuen09\">IndieBound<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>High-Tech LEGO Projects: 16 Rule-Breaking Inventions<\/em><br \/>\nby Grady Koch (Author)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> A collection of 16 scientific and technical projects to build with parts from the LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 robotics set and other components. You&#8217;ll find a motion-activated animal cam, a Morse code transmitter, a laser security fence, a motion-sensing radar detector, an automated insect trapper, a heat-seeking infrared cannon and more! Every project brings together science, mechanics, electronics, optics, and software to create complex instruments for studying and measuring the world around you with step-by-step directions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/hightechlego1-595x744.jpg?resize=525%2C656&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"656\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13694\" \/><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/hightechlego2-595x743.jpg?resize=525%2C656&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"656\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13695\" \/><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/hightechlego3-595x743.jpg?resize=525%2C656&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"656\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13696\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-889\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stemfriday.tiny_.jpg?resize=216%2C104\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"104\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/\">STEM Friday!<\/a> (<strong>STEM<\/strong> is <strong>S<\/strong>cience, <strong>T<\/strong>echnology, <strong>E<\/strong>ngineering, and <strong>M<\/strong>athematics)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound High-Tech LEGO Projects: 16 Rule-Breaking Inventions by Grady Koch (Author) Booktalk: A collection of 16 scientific and technical projects to build with parts from the LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 robotics set and other components. You&#8217;ll find a motion-activated animal cam, a Morse code transmitter, a laser security fence, a motion-sensing radar &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/high-tech-lego-projects-16-rule-breaking-inventions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;High-Tech LEGO Projects: 16 Rule-Breaking Inventions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem-friday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pamhGQ-fz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":808,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/beastly-bionics-rad-robots-brilliant-biomimicry-and-incredible-inventions-inspired-by-nature\/","url_meta":{"origin":965,"position":0},"title":"Beastly Bionics: Rad Robots, Brilliant Biomimicry, and Incredible Inventions Inspired by Nature","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"July 10, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound Beastly Bionics: Rad Robots, Brilliant Biomimicry, and Incredible Inventions Inspired by Nature by Jennifer Swanson (Author) Booktalk: Did you know that scientists have developed a bionic tool shaped like an elephant's trunk that helps lift heavy objects? 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