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Subject:	Re: Serenity, an autonomous NXT-based boat
Newsgroups:	lugnet.robotics
Date:	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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**        **        **        **        **
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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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*        **        **        **        *
*        **        **        **        *
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*        **        **        **        *
*        **        **        **        *
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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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		Re: Serenity, an autonomous NXT-based boat
(...) 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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