LEGO Mindstorms NXT

Posted by DevonX on Dec. 25, 2006, 8:39 p.m.

Alright, today for christmas I got a LEGO Mindstorms NXT set and it is <B>AWESOME</B>. I have been messing with it almost all day. If anyone else out there also has this, you most likely know of the first robot you build/program, the TriBot. Well, since I R Noob with NTX I just took that after I build it, messed around with programming it, then I modified the TriBot into my own little creation. I have made a few programs for this robot. Here a a couple:

<B>Smooth driving</B>-senses walls about 3ft away an then smoothly turns.

<B>Edge sensing</B>-senses the edge of a table, then backs-up and turns around to continue moving without falling off the table.

<B>Resposes</B>-it moves around, when you stand in front of it, it says hello, then when you walk away, it says goodbye, and then continues on.

<B>Color Sensing</B>-it moves around until it hits an object, it stops then says what color it is, then turns around and continues on.

I have also made a few other ones but I refuse to put them on here because they suck, and they were like the very first ones I made.

Also, if you have NXT, please post some of the stuff that <B>you</B> can do, so I can attempt it on my own. My imagination is very limited.

Comments

Kaz 17 years, 11 months ago

I always wanted one of those, but I guess I grew out of Legos a while ago.

gtvg 17 years, 11 months ago

I don't have NXT, but I have, I think the first one. I've made some pretty cool stuff with it. I've made the crane, if you know what I'm talking about.(It's on the box)

DevonX 17 years, 11 months ago

@kaz:I thought i did to until my dad got me this for x-mas, its quite fun to build and program ur own bots. soon im gonna make a bot to kick my sisters ass, lol

mooselumph 17 years, 11 months ago

Heh, these aren't NXT, but they might still be inspirational:

http://www.64digits.com/octopus/mindstorms/

Actually, scratch that. I've changed my mind after googling "TriBot."

My challenge would be to build a walking robot. Unless you were talking about a programming idea.

Acid 17 years, 11 months ago

I was in a robotics competition where our schools team used NXT to complete missions. We placed 7th out of 20.

Kaz 17 years, 11 months ago

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@kaz:I thought i did to until my dad got me this for x-mas, its quite fun to build and program ur own bots
I always wanted to build bots, but never had the resources. Perhaps in the future I can make one.