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- 28 Aug 2018
Your robot today will have to perform various actions simultaneously while it's making sounds and its arm is rotating.
We will put the move blocks in the first thread.
Below, in the second thread, we will put the blocks which will be executed in parallel with the first thread – the block for rotating the motor of the arm.
We take the second thread, which will be included in the program, by holding the mouse on one of the two branches at the start of the program. Then, we drag it to the beginning of the blocks we have put below.
We get the following result:
If we download and launch this program on the robot, we will have the following reaction: The robot will repeat the forward-backward movement infinitely and in parallel with that, the arm motor will make one complete rotation in the beginning.
Courses and lessons with this Tutorial
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