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Lego Mindstorms NXT competition
« on: October 14, 2011, 02:52:28 pm »
So I signed up to this French NXT competition between French IUTs (and a Québécois CEGEP) that consists to build a robot under 4 hours with the problem only known at the start. Sounds awesome? Yes it is.

And I heard there's loads of programming languages for the NXT, like ROBOTC (we have a licence) and C#. A teacher just lent me his NXT set until next Thursday (which is the competition day). Now I guess I need ideas to do something with this?

Edit: Best idea will be made and I'll probably send pics.
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Re: Lego Mindstorms NXT competition
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2011, 02:55:27 pm »
build a bot that types stuff into a calculator!!!!


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Re: Lego Mindstorms NXT competition
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2011, 03:53:04 pm »
Build a robot that follows a line to a destination, retrieves an object at that destination, and then follows the line back and gives it to you.

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Re: Lego Mindstorms NXT competition
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2011, 03:54:16 pm »
Build a robot that does shoot bullets to a certain red goal (im not kidding)
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Re: Lego Mindstorms NXT competition
« Reply #4 on: October 19, 2011, 03:51:49 pm »
Hmm interesting. Sadly I do not have any idea though D:. I hope you can get one and good luck if you participate.

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Re: Lego Mindstorms NXT competition
« Reply #5 on: October 19, 2011, 04:40:31 pm »
It's tomorrow, and I did something that is supposed to sort colored marbles while my friend did something with 2 wheels and 2 rotating legs.

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Re: Lego Mindstorms NXT competition
« Reply #6 on: October 19, 2011, 04:49:05 pm »
Ah ok, good to hear you got some ideas. Good luck then :D

Also will you be able to post pics once it's finished?

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Re: Lego Mindstorms NXT competition
« Reply #7 on: October 19, 2011, 04:50:17 pm »
Of course. We're supposed to write a wiki page with pics and videos as part of the competition, I'll post them here as well.

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Re: Lego Mindstorms NXT competition
« Reply #8 on: October 19, 2011, 04:57:32 pm »
Cool to hear :D

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Re: Lego Mindstorms NXT competition
« Reply #9 on: October 20, 2011, 08:02:32 pm »
Here's the final product.


(More info in the video description)

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Re: Lego Mindstorms NXT competition
« Reply #10 on: October 20, 2011, 08:09:14 pm »
Nice. Is the thing the robot seems to be pushing supposed to fall, though?

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Re: Lego Mindstorms NXT competition
« Reply #11 on: October 20, 2011, 08:42:58 pm »
This is cool. I am participating in a competition like that, but we make our robots out of machined aluminum, and program them to reach certain goals in RobotC.

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Re: Lego Mindstorms NXT competition
« Reply #12 on: October 20, 2011, 10:12:06 pm »
Nice. Is the thing the robot seems to be pushing supposed to fall, though?
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Re: Lego Mindstorms NXT competition
« Reply #13 on: October 27, 2011, 05:56:20 pm »
So how did this went? Any idea when results are gonna come out?

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Re: Lego Mindstorms NXT competition
« Reply #14 on: October 27, 2011, 06:02:31 pm »
So how did this went? Any idea when results are gonna come out?
Nope :(

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