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Sun, Jan 14 2007 11:20 AM

Grab the ball

The second step for the TriBot... if you touch the ball stop moving and grab the ball (if you haven't a clue what I'm talking about, read my previous Robotics posts first). The program is pretty similar to the previous part. If the contact sensor is pressed...
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Sat, Dec 30 2006 12:50 PM

See movement... start rolling!

The manifest is ready, so onto recreating the first step of the Lego TriBot example "start driving as soon as you see a movement" using two motors and the ultrasonic sensor. I first want to try this out using the Visual Programming Language that comes...
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Thu, Dec 14 2006 7:35 PM

I have a manifest... therefore I exist...

The Robotics environment uses a manifest in which you define your Robot. This manifest basically tells what properties your robot has by defining them as services. Whether your using the Visual Programming Language (more about that later) or Visual Studio...
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Tue, Nov 14 2006 6:37 PM

Making first contact

After exploring the box with the goodies, building the "getting started robot" and installing the Lego visual programming environment (the NXT is targeted at ages 10+), it was time for a test run... The program in the snapshot plays a sound, starts the...
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Fri, Nov 10 2006 11:46 AM

My new Brick has arrived

After weeks of trying to convince myself that investing a new Brick was nonsense if you already owned a Brick, I gave in and ordered one. Why you might ask... because this one came with servo motors or was it because of the ultrasonic sensor? Meet NXT...
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