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, 4 months ago

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

gtvg 17 years, 4 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, 4 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, 4 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, 4 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, 4 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.