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
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Pipe Runner
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Here is a pair of Claws that I discovered on YouTube that I found very cool. These look like they work very well and are somewhat simple. I may try something like this for fun when I have one of mine taken apart.
I was Thinking about getting some more sensors besides the ones that come with the set like the IR LINK, Compass, Accelerometer ECT. Which one do you like the best? So pick which one that you have, want , or would like the most. You can select up to two of them if you cannot make your mind up. Also if there is just one that you love so much You can just vote by replying.
Go over to the forum to vote on your two favorites.
Poll: Which Sensors are the best?
Here are the ones that I thought would be the most popular:
I stumbled Across this video on YouTube and thought it was awesome. It uses a unique way of meshing the green wheels to the 40 tooth gears. from what you can see in the video it looks very strong and powerful.
Here is what he has to say about it:
“The interesting part of this robot is the use of the 8108 Exoforce kit’s large green wheels fitting perfectly between a set of large gears thus making it a very simple rather effective 4wd robot base. — Then at the front there is a ultra sonic sensor head that rotates right and left measuring the distance in front to determine which way it should go next If however it still detects an obstacle, it backs up a bit and re-does the scan. This is in hopes not be get stuck anywhere. I’m sure both the program and the robot could use multi design improvement — well that’s where you come in. Have fun making / improving your own version.”
2+1 = 4 . This robot’s function is a special drive train called a Motor Multiplexer. It works by having 2 motors to drive the vehicle, and another motor in between the 2 to slide them forward along a gear rack. When they are in the front position a bump sensor is pressed, and it stops the center motor. The 2 motors are now disengaged from the wheels, and engaged to the 2 worm gear-boxes on the front, which have attachments on them. So, basically, it’s purpose is to have 2 powered drive wheels and 2 powered attachments, with only 3 motors. It was originally designed for FLL.
Video Found Here: LEGO MINDSTORMS Motor Multiplexor
Here’s a great new project I just made: a forklift!
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!
Meet the (S)emi (P)ortable (M)usic (P)layer (SPMP)!This is the new hi-tech music player! The iPod now has a rival! Or maybe I should wait till someone buys mine before I say that…Anyways, this is a robot that can carry around your Boom Box wherever you go! It even has a rack to carry all of your CDs. It’ll play mp3s too as soon as LEGO improves the sound capability of the NXT… (hint, hint, LEGO!)And if your music is all on your computer…It will carry that too! More pictures
I Have finally got around to making the video for my previous creations. So here is my First Bot Tankenator. As you can see it can go right over a pile of legos with ease. At the end of the video you can see it fall down the stairs, It really didn’t break very much, unlike some of my other creations that had accidents falling down the stairs. OOPS.
To see the Project Click HERE
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