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Itz heere!
Mar. 11th, 2008 09:46 amOn Saturday, my dad handed me the rest of my Lego order: four short wire bricks and two motors!
Together with the one working motor I had already, the one that came several weeks ago, and these, I now have four working motors.
(and only three motor ports on my RCX. I don't know why dad gave me one extra. Could have been the four wires and only three motors, but then he forgot about the sensors...)
Now I'm trying to figure out what to do with them all.
So far I've built a working roverbot that wanders around the floor, bumping into things and moving away, but I don't have too many other ideas.
(I'm kinda open to suggestions, by the way)
My next idea is a sorting robot that picks up bricks from one area and puts them into bins, similar to the way a "regular" robot does, but on a straight track instead of swiveling (I found out that I have a total of nine four-stud-long racks. Those things can be so useful sometimes).
Because I'm on Linux, the only development environment I have at the moment is a plain text editor and NQC (not quite C) for writing and programming the RCX, and it's working okay so far.
(I'm just glad that I'm not limited to using the environment that Lego uses, it's pretty restricting, especially with only one variable!)
Next I need to actually program the arm, and maybe find someplace to put it so I don't have to keep moving it around my room...
(anybody have any suggestions for another Lego Mindstorms project? I'm kind of stuck for more ideas)
Together with the one working motor I had already, the one that came several weeks ago, and these, I now have four working motors.
(and only three motor ports on my RCX. I don't know why dad gave me one extra. Could have been the four wires and only three motors, but then he forgot about the sensors...)
Now I'm trying to figure out what to do with them all.
So far I've built a working roverbot that wanders around the floor, bumping into things and moving away, but I don't have too many other ideas.
(I'm kinda open to suggestions, by the way)
My next idea is a sorting robot that picks up bricks from one area and puts them into bins, similar to the way a "regular" robot does, but on a straight track instead of swiveling (I found out that I have a total of nine four-stud-long racks. Those things can be so useful sometimes).
Because I'm on Linux, the only development environment I have at the moment is a plain text editor and NQC (not quite C) for writing and programming the RCX, and it's working okay so far.
(I'm just glad that I'm not limited to using the environment that Lego uses, it's pretty restricting, especially with only one variable!)
Next I need to actually program the arm, and maybe find someplace to put it so I don't have to keep moving it around my room...
(anybody have any suggestions for another Lego Mindstorms project? I'm kind of stuck for more ideas)
