Saturday, 29 August 2009

Programing tips : stay in the box

This is how to program your robot to stay in a box printed in a thick black line (like on the test mat)

1 Put your color sensor (or color sensor) on a castor bot (or starter bot).
2 Program this:
[loop - [move ( forward - unlimited ) ] - [wait for ( light - <>
3 download and play.

This program:

the robot goes forward until it finds the black line the goes back the left and repeats

heres what it should look like (nxt-g 2.0)



Thursday, 27 August 2009

MINDSTORMS.com to be updated


On the back of the NXT 2.0 box the is a picture of the mindstorms website, in its nxt form.
here is a picture:

Tuesday, 25 August 2009

MORPH

the new mindstorms 2.0 robot, MORPH is a part space explorer, part humanoid.
click on the picture and download the wall paper:


NXT 2.0 - ShooterBot instructions

LEGO let this small mistake through there final testing.

It may seem like a small mistake but it has been causing "new to mindstorms" users' robots act oddly.

NXT 2.0 out now

The new NXT 2.0 is out now. it includes a all new color sensor, but for this you substitute the sound sensor. the are now 2 touch sensors. the is nothing new with the nxt, it is exaclly the same as the 1.x.

In the box the is 4 new robots:

Alpha Rex:





  • Playability: [1] [2] [3] [4] [0]
  • Ease of build: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] (2 hrs)
  • Building instructions: Great!










Colour Sorter






  • Playability: [1][2][3][][]
  • Ease of build: [1][2][3][4][] (2 hrs)
  • Building instructions: Great




Robogator






  • Playability: [1][2][3][4][]
  • Ease of build: [1][2][][][] (1.5 hrs)
  • Building instructions: Great




Shooterbot








  • Playability: [1][2][3][4][]
  • Ease of build: [1][][][][] (45 mins)
  • Building instructions: O.K. ( one mistake see the next post)






LEGO have also said that 10 other robots will be released soon.