End of FLL this year…End party, right? Well, we can’t just sit around talking! To celebrate this year’s great success in FLL, all our team members got together to have one more challenge: a sumo competition. Each team member got together with one other, and since we had 10 members, a total of 5 robots were created. Now, who won?
First place: The Bull
Giganto is a joint effor of several people I know and me. It uses two XL PF motors, several NXT motors, and two NXTs. This is it’s second version, and while it is still not THAT big it’s alot bigger than many robots I have built so far. See more of it on NXTLog Here:
And by the way, the Lego Technic Bulldozer I bought came in the mail today, so some of my upcoming projects are going to have a obvious size difference than my old ones!
This is written for the purpose of persuading Lego to allow Mindsensors.com to use their sensor casings.
A small NXT (a Lego robotics kit) rover drives around with a sensor that detects which way an obstacle is. The shiny white robot dashed around quickly, and the whir of the motors rises and falls as the rover drives around autonomously. The robot turns away from several walls, then finds a cup and grabs it. The sensor is made by Mindsensors, an online store that makes some of the best sensors available. (A sensor gives input on something, in this case, it detects if the robot will hit something ahead of it or not.) However, all of their sensors are all un-Lego-like because they don’t have any protective encasing. They are just bare-bone circuit boards.
Mindsensors, in my opinion, has the best sensors among all other stores I have seen so far. They have a wide selection of sensors that has all the sensors that other stores offer, and more. Their prices are reasonable, ranging from $19.95 to $97.75 and their sensors are well-made. Hitechnic, another sensor company that Lego has joined with, sells a sensor for $46.99, yet Mindsensors sells one with the same exact capabilities for just $32!
Therefore, I think, Lego should do what they have already done several times these past years with other innovative companies: join with (more…)
meowmechanic on NXTLOG has created one of the best looking bipeds I’ve ever seen so far. It uses just one NXT set, and can walk forward, turn right, and turn left.
Check it out on NXTLOG here.
nxtprograms.com has a nice tutorial on how to take good quality photos. This is always the hardest part of our creations. The tutorial is very simple and easy to understand.
Read it here:
Hi! I’m a new contributor on nxtcentral.com, and I’m looking forward to posting more about NXT and Lego! I’ve been using RCXs for several years, and I got a NXT about a year or two ago. I can program pretty fluently in NXT-G, and can also do some NQC and NXC. I don’t have any experience with RobotC yet, though. Hope to help bring news and cool projects to you guys!
-Ro1000 (aka. Robomaster)
