11. Daisy-Chaining Projects

You’ve learned a lot about how to use EV3 sensors and motors to create robotics projects, but part of the real power of the EV3 is that you can network up to four Intelligent Bricks together to create even more robotics possibilities.

For the projects in this chapter, I use a LEGO Education EV3 set and an EV3 Home Edition. However, you can combine two Home Editions or other sets. As long as you have the Bricks, you have what you need and the concepts will be the same, even if the parts are not.

EV3 Intelligent Bricks can work together by either being physically connected to one another through the USB cable (daisy chaining) or by sending messages to each other over a Bluetooth network. When robots are daisy chained ...

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