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Re: Serenity, an autonomous NXT-based boat
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:54:48 GMT
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The City Harbor boat hull is plenty big to hold an RCX or an NXT. It could hold
three of them end to end, actually.
There are studs on the bottom of the hold and along the top, so you could build
a cage for an NXT or just stick the RCX directly onto the hold’s bottom.
The studs on the bottom are in a grid pattern so that the shipping containers
you build for the set can be removed easily. There are large areas with no studs
surrounded by a grid that’s two studs deep.
Here’s an ASCII art approximation, which is definitely not to scale, but gives
you the basic idea:
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I’m at work so I can’t confirm this, but IIRC the outer rows have only one stud.
So maybe it looks like this:
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Either way, though, it’s a very long hull and has a lot of space. You might even
be able to fit the RCX/NXT into it across its width, but like I said, I’m not at
home so I can’t confirm this.
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| (...) I'd love to see more people try this. It's a little bit risky (usually, when my programming skills fail the robot doesn't end up stranding in the middle of a lake... or worse, on the bottom), but it brings up a whole new range of problems and (...) (17 years ago, 13-Sep-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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