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23 January 2013

NXT Pinball

Lego NXT Pinball Machine - Gameplay test #2


6 robots now control this NXT pinball machine. 9 touch sensors score the points, two motors are used for the ball return and two for the spinners. You can see a few more details on the machine at http://sites.google.com/site/legonxtpinball/.

22 January 2013

High-speed Robot

Ultra High-speed Robot Based on 1 kHz Vision System


By Masatoshi Ishikawa, Akio Namiki, Taku Senoo and Yuji Yamakawa

Platform Vehicle

LEGO NXT Platform Vehicle



 This platform vehicle is based on LEGO Technic's 8421 Model 2. It is completely motorized which uses 6 servo motors and 1 NXT controller.
 This vehicle is controlled by a joystick controller via Bluetooth.
 Use NXT-G to program it

21 January 2013

Lego Car Factory

Lego Mindstorms Car Factory



For a school project I decided to build a car factory out of LEGO, using the LEGO Mindstorms. In total 9 NXT´s and 19 motors were used. Enjoy Watching!

Self-assembling robots


Self-assembling robots could be the future of snack delivery The project is titled "Spatially Targeted Communication and Self-Assembly," and it allows flying drone robots to communicate with a group of ground-based swarm robots. 
This significantly increases the swarm bots' sensing range to give them a better idea of which morphology—or formation of robots—would be appropriate for a given environment. Incredibly, the flying robots communicate with their grounded companions through a series of LED light displays, as Gizmodo points out. I would explain it further, but it might be best just to watch it in action yourself:

 

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