I have finally got around to making the video for Dozer. It has been a while since I built this and I forgot how powerful it actually is. As you can see in the video it can shove around the large pile of bricks around with ease. It has a Little Bit of trouble driving over it because the plow is so heavy it tips forward a bit. Having the plow so heavy is a good thing because it helps scrape the ground and move alot of stuff around. There is also a couple of surprises in the video, I decided to try out how well the little Power Functions Tank I built, worked on all the legos. It did surprisingly well. I did not think the the new tracks would preform that well on legos but they worked great. The other little surprise is my dog made her first appearance in my videos.
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SUMO!
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 by ro1000 in NXT, News, ProjectsEnd 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
New Project: Pipe Runner
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 by snowblader13 in NXT, News, Projects |
Pipe Runner
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FLL World Fest!
Sunday, March 16th, 2008 by NXTMonger in News
A big part of the robotic competitions is the outreach to the community in which a team participates, as well as the team’s expression of the FLL Core Values. Teams from around the world were given the opportunity to present their works in these areas for special consideration. Of all the teams that applied internationally, only twelve teams would be invited to compete at the FLL World Festival (April 17-18 in Atlanta, GA). The Fire Breathing Rubber Duckes from Village Home was one of those teams invited!The Duckies are the “sister” team from the co-op that our team went to. AND THEY ARE GOING TO WORLD FEST!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!
iPhone Gets LEGO Touch
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 by snowblader13 in NewsI thought this is really cool. I do not know how many of you out there actually have an iPhone, but this would be really neat to have on one. It’s kind of like LDD from the looks of it. Here is a little information on the program:
“LEGO-touch for the iPhone will allow users to build virtual LEGO creations using a large catalog of basic building blocks.”
“Using the iPhone’s multi-touch display, you can easily grab blocks and assemble them into just about any shape you can imagine. A slick user interface lets you easily zoom in and rotate your designs, and easily apply any color in the spectrum to each of your blocks”
MINDSTORMS NXTLOG Camera Bot Winners
Monday, March 10th, 2008 by snowblader13 in Challenges, NewsLEGO has now Unveiled the winners of the NXTLOG building challenge:
Here Is The Link To the winners:
Lego NXT Mars Rover & Lander – NXTLOG 5000 Winner!
Saturday, March 8th, 2008 by snowblader13 in Challenges, NXT, NewsHere is the video of the robot mezzauk the winner of NXTLOG 5000.
NXTLOG 5000 Winner!!!
Monday, March 3rd, 2008 by snowblader13 in Challenges, NewsAnd the winner of the 5000th NXTLOG entry is: mezzauk and his Creation: Mars Explorer Mk1 with Lander(PF Inc)
His Creation Defiantly deserves #5000 Here is Part of his description go HERE to see more of it.
“This is my first NXT project. It is a simple explorer with a PF enabled Lander. The explorer begins by ordering the lander to lowering both sides then the front so it can exit. I had a medium PF motor spare so quickly stuck a small radar/communication tower at the back – it rotates whilst the left, right and front are deployed.
The explorer has all sensors built in but of course only 4 work depending on which program I choose to use. I am working on 3 programs 1st – will use the light, compass, IR distance sensor and Pf Sensors. 2nd – light, compass, IR and ultrasonic sensors and finally Compass, IR, Ultrasonic and Touch.
My main program uses the light sensor to locate the brightest source using the turntable, record the compass heading and use the heading to navigate to the light source…” More
There were also many others that were very nice as well Go check them out HERE.
Mindsensors+Lego=?
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 by ro1000 in NewsThis 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…)
How to Take Good Photos of LEGOs
Friday, February 15th, 2008 by ro1000 in News, Projectsnxtprograms.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:
