Friday 25 March 2011

Quicker car racing interface

The box used to respond very slowly and the pulses were so quick that the computer didn't recognise them so we used a bistable to recognise the pulse through the input and keep it on until another input was pressed. We also changed the reading speed from 200 to 10 and we turned the trace off because it took up too much of the processing time. It is all shown in this video.

Monday 21 March 2011

AT-AT Permission Granted

We've been given the green for GO to build a LEGO NXT robot AT-AT to be controlled by our controller. It will be quite hard building the legs!!

Thursday 17 March 2011

Tuesday 15 March 2011

Line Follower of the week

                                                        12.28 seconds around the track

Spike bluetooth

We can now control the stinger on spike as well as the legs through the controller.

IT WORKS!!!!!!!

(spike's tail and legs that is)
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Monday 7 March 2011

"Spike" controlled through Bluetooth

....using the same program that controlled the buggy. Now for push-button activation of the 'sting'!

Friday 4 March 2011

Master and slave NXT


We have finally managed to connect two NXTs together in a slave and master combination, this allows us to control one NXT remotely using another via bluetooth. This should pave the way for a far wider range of possibilities than before.