The Tourist — A mindsensors.com PSP-Nx Review
Saturday, September 23rd, 2006
Thanks goes to the kind folks at mindsensors.com for sending me their new PSP-Nx Sony PlayStation 2 controller interface for the LEGO Mindstorms NXT. I wanted to give the interface a spin and post a review, so I put together a simple robotic vehicle that I affectionately call the Tourist (click here for hi-res). Is the PSP-Nx a stud or dud? See the full review after the jump to find out!
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Meet Dave Astolfo’s Tiltbot
Saturday, September 23rd, 2006
Fresh on the heels of DominoBotNXT, our good friend Dave Astolfo does it again with another excellent creation that he calls Tiltbot! He started this project to test and review the new Techno-stuff Tilt Sensor. Can’t wait to see a video!
The general idea was to build a robot that would navigate over varying terrain (eg. a few books etc), with a high center of gravity so that it could easily flip forward or backward. Then, to have the center NXT brick unit (seen in picture) to auto level itself to ensure that the robot weight was balanced and not flip over. The Tilt Sensor would allow for it to detect when it was riding up on an object and then shift the NXT unit forward or back depending on where the weight was shifting.
Learn more about Tiltbot over at Dave’s site: http://www.astolfo.com/
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