07.18.09

Puckbot I – Collector Robot Success!

Posted in CollectorBot, My Robots, RobotC Code, Video tagged , , , , , , , at 10:38 pm by Thom

The collector is a more complex robot building on concepts learns from AreaBot.  The robot covers are much area of a closed arena as possible collecting Mindstorms NXT foam pucks, and delivering them to a central home base (light source).  The following represents the sensors, drivers, and behavior hierarchy to accomplish the task.

collectorbot-behdia

See all of the collector robot articles here.
Download the Code: Download: bbPuckBot.zip
See the video here.

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07.13.09

AreaRover III – Video

Posted in AreaBot, My Robots, Video tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , at 12:21 pm by Thom

Sorry this video took so long to post.  Some time in the past two weeks, my microphone/Windows 7 combination started acting up.  The voice was recorded choppy and awful.  I sounds like two drivers are competing for control of the microphone processing, but I can’t tell for sure.  I guess those are the breaks with release candidate software…

Any way, here is the missing video.

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