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question on mindstorm capabilities for competition
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:45:19 GMT
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Hi all,
Every year on our campus we have a robotics competition called the Mobot
race, where home built robots attempt to steer through a course by
following a painted white line. This white line curves and breaks at
some points depending on the sidewalk condition.
I wanted to enter the race with a 10 year old to give him some
experience with robotics, he would love it to death. He is great with
legos but neither of us have mindstorm experience.
I am under the impression that a light sensor is all we might need for
this. Using the light sensor we could detect the edge of the white line
and attempt to follow it. When there are cracks, we could just program
it to keep its wheels straight and keep going.
Is the RCX or NXT best for this? And what kind of programming might be
involved? I have a lot of programming experience such that I could do
it all for the kid, but it's best if it provides something he can play
with too.
I found this, which gives me the impression that there is some base
programming kit that might allow us to program something simple like
following the line:
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs229/proj2006/Townsend-MachineLearningWithALegoMindstormsRobot.pdf
Thanks!
George
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: question on mindstorm capabilities for competition
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| George, I think the NXT would be an excellent way to get your son involved in robotics. And, it should do just fine in that competition. That's pretty much what it was designed for. Don't worry about a lack of experience with Mindstorms. I'm sure (...) (16 years ago, 30-Jun-08, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: question on mindstorm capabilities for competition
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| (...) Hi George, NXT will do this fine, however you might want to try two light sensors (1 more than in the Retail Kit) Otherwise you might not be able to tell going off line and a break in the line! The NXTG language would be fine for this task and (...) (16 years ago, 4-Jul-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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