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Re: question on mindstorm capabilities for competition
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:02:07 GMT
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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 your
son will be able to help you. :)
Or, you can post here...
Steve
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 1:45 PM, George Nychis <gnychis@cmu.edu> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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
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> Thanks!
> George
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