NXTCentral Challenge #1 Results
Challenge #1 Pull That Weight
NXTCentral’s first challenge is now over!!! We sadly only had 3 entries for the challenge. Here are the rules for challenge #1:
I am challenging all builders to pull as much weight as you possibly can. This will test your creativity to build a robot that not only can pull a bunch of weight, but that looks like something that can actually pull it. Will it be like a tug boat, or a Locomotive? There is no limit on the amount of weight that you can pull. You must pull the weight 10 feet in the lowest amount of time.
The following are the people and their Robots who entered
- mini_man176 - The Tractor
- NXTMonger - TugBot II
- Snowblader13 - Loco the Puller
And the winner of NXTCentral Challenge #1 is:
NXTMonger With his TugBot II, He was able to pull 10.3 Pounds in 1 Minute 21 Seconds!!! Here is a pictures and video of his Bot:
Snowblader13 came in 2nd with 8 pounds pulled in 4 Minutes 15 Seconds. Here is a pictures and video of his Bot:
Mini_Man 176 came in 3rd pulling 3.3 pounds in 5 Minutes 36 Seconds. Here is a pictures of his Bot:
Please let me know if you have any more questions or want o see more photos about the robots.
June 3rd, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Woohoo I won!
Man, your video is way better than mine, Snowblader13! I wish my camera was that good. My dad got the cheapest STILLS camera there was! It has a video mode but it’s not too good.
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:31 pm
thanks, mine is just a still camera with real good video. not as good as i would like though. i am getting a new video camera for my bday this week, yay I may make a tutorial on how to make better videos for legos if enough people want me to
Oh yeah and congradulations!!!
June 4th, 2008 at 8:03 am
At least I came 3rd. Pity it was out of 3.
Anyone notice that the youtube videos seem to have changed?
June 4th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Tutorial? Yes we want it!!!
Yeah, I noticed that the YouTube player changed. I kind of liked the old one better.
June 4th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Ya they upgraded them, they are faster, but i dont really like the new player.
I will make a tutorial withing the next few weeks, it will take me a while to do so but i will try my best.
June 5th, 2008 at 11:17 am
Thx snowblader
June 18th, 2008 at 7:48 am
Sorry I couldn’t enter. My computer driver for the NXT is still broken. I’m asking the guys at The NXTStep blog to help me so hopefully it will be fixed soon. I built a version 2 of my robot, but my first version is here: http://us.mindstorms.lego.com/nxtlog/projectdisplay.aspx?id=a0ec3a62-4417-4055-897f-a1da969b4622#AddComment
It pulled 8lbs in 1min 13sec, and my 2nd version did better than that, but by how much I don’t know. I remember it did it in about the same amount of time, though.
June 18th, 2008 at 7:50 am
…O ya, and my robot was built to look like a pickup truck…didn’t work too well. Hey, who knows what pickup trucks’ll look 50 years from now? You never know