A new caterpillar NXT-bot

Friday, July 14th, 2006

Menno Gorter, an MDP member, has published some photos of this new caterpillar NXT robot. Although he keeps some of this wonderful creature’s details to himself, he did share with us that it took a total of 420 parts to make just the track, including the 60 double bent liftarms. Also the touch sensor visible in the picture is coupled to the ultrasound sensor to detect obstacles. Unfortunately, there is still no video available to show us this beautiful creature moving, but one can see that it can rotate (probably by bending its internal frame, as one of the pictures shows the liftarms spacing is not symmetric) as well as move forward.

Great job Menno!

More pictures can be found at http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=193709.

btw. Happy to post my first news at NXTasy! Hoping to give you more interesting stuff in the future. Guy

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Mindsensors Magnetic Compass Sensor Video

Friday, July 14th, 2006

Here’s a video of the upcoming Mindsensors magnetic compass sensor in action on the NXT!

Per Mindsensors:

“This video was taken with NXT robot on a platform. NXT was programmed to orient itself to constant magnetic heading. When the platform is shifted, NXT notices the change in the heading, and aligns itself to the programmed heading.”

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NXT-G Programming 101

Friday, July 14th, 2006

The friendly folks over at INSciTE have created a pretty comprehensive NXT-G training guide.  The content appears to be geared towards younger audiences, but there’s a lot of good information that should be helpful to all.

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