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Re: So I got this NXT thingy....
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Sat, 3 Mar 2007 00:42:22 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Derek Raycraft wrote:

Very insidious if you ask me!

You will be assimilated... actually, while I've always liked hybrid
construction, with the NXT I tend toward studless, at least partially because I
have my studless sorted seperate from my studded, and... well, I really like the
look of stuf like LNE when I do it clean and studless. I'm pretty sure I could
do better in hybrid, actually, I just haven't wanted to move back that way yet.

[studless] offers a lot of flexibility.

In fact I've thought about the fact that terms like SNOT just don't make much
sense in a mostly studless system, because you are even less constrained by
ideas of up/down. I like having the NXT brick face-up to see the display (which
I really like using), but I've actually built robots with the NXT even
face-down.

So far the NXT robots I've seen have not strayed far from just
sticking stuff on the default robot that comes with the kit.

Well, LNE certainly isn't, and there's a lot of other builders with some
interesting designs like this:

Artic Snow Cat:
http://mindstorms.lego.com/nxtlog/ProjectDisplay.aspx?id=c7d16dfe-780b-4b19-9aa3-3c0b22065dd5

There's a lot of other intersting ones out there, some that pop up on NXTlog
(although there's still a lot of "barely modified Tribots" there as well). Some
nice holonomic platforms like Steves Omni and some more standard "drive the
wheels through the turntable" types too.

--
Brian Davis



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  Re: So I got this NXT thingy....
 
(...) Is there some sort of reference out there like "brick plate plate brick" to teach us slow ones how to use studless systems? Calum (18 years ago, 3-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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(...) I have to agree with you, it does grow on you. I'm not opposed to the studless system. It offers a lot of flexibility. Like you I'm getting used to it. However I do think it's a tricky concept for kids at the FLL age. I think there is a (...) (18 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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