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General Discussion => Technology and Development => Other => Topic started by: Juju on October 14, 2011, 02:52:28 pm

Title: Lego Mindstorms NXT competition
Post by: Juju on October 14, 2011, 02:52:28 pm

So I signed up to this French NXT competition (http://definxt.com/) 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.

Title: Re: Lego Mindstorms NXT competition
Post by: Geekboy1011 on October 14, 2011, 02:55:27 pm

build a bot that types stuff into a calculator!!!!


j/k hmm im clueless lol

Title: Re: Lego Mindstorms NXT competition
Post by: Builderboy 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.

Title: Re: Lego Mindstorms NXT competition
Post by: aeTIos on October 14, 2011, 03:54:16 pm

Build a robot that does shoot bullets to a certain red goal (im not kidding)

Title: Re: Lego Mindstorms NXT competition
Post by: DJ Omnimaga 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.

Title: Re: Lego Mindstorms NXT competition
Post by: Juju 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.

Title: Re: Lego Mindstorms NXT competition
Post by: DJ Omnimaga 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?

Title: Re: Lego Mindstorms NXT competition
Post by: Juju 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.

Title: Re: Lego Mindstorms NXT competition
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 19, 2011, 04:57:32 pm

Cool to hear :D

Title: Re: Lego Mindstorms NXT competition
Post by: Juju on October 20, 2011, 08:02:32 pm

Here's the final product.

(More info in the video description)

Title: Re: Lego Mindstorms NXT competition
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 20, 2011, 08:09:14 pm

Nice. Is the thing the robot seems to be pushing supposed to fall, though?

Title: Re: Lego Mindstorms NXT competition
Post by: mrmprog 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.

Title: Re: Lego Mindstorms NXT competition
Post by: Juju on October 20, 2011, 10:12:06 pm

Quote from: DJ_O on October 20, 2011, 08:09:14 pm

Nice. Is the thing the robot seems to be pushing supposed to fall, though?

No.

Title: Re: Lego Mindstorms NXT competition
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 27, 2011, 05:56:20 pm

So how did this went? Any idea when results are gonna come out?

Title: Re: Lego Mindstorms NXT competition
Post by: Juju on October 27, 2011, 06:02:31 pm

Quote from: DJ_O on October 27, 2011, 05:56:20 pm

So how did this went? Any idea when results are gonna come out?

Nope :(

Title: Re: Lego Mindstorms NXT competition
Post by: annoyingcalc on October 27, 2011, 08:46:45 pm

I hope soon

Title: Re: Lego Mindstorms NXT competition
Post by: Juju on November 16, 2011, 01:40:45 pm

Oh, I finally got news. We didn't made the Top 3, but we still made the news on my college's intranet :D

Title: Re: Lego Mindstorms NXT competition
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 16, 2011, 02:55:22 pm

Sorry to hear, what rank did you end at? D:

Still nice, though about the news :D

Title: Re: Lego Mindstorms NXT competition
Post by: Juju on November 16, 2011, 04:34:36 pm

No idea, they only ranked people on the Top 3.

http://cairn-duo.de/definxt/dokuwiki-2011-05-25/doku.php?id=start