Video - My Son’s Lego Mindstorms Robot in Action
Every Monday night for the rest of the summer my son and some of his friends are taking a class on building robots with Legos. How cool is that? They are doing it through a company called Davinci’s Kids.
Basically each week they are presented with a challenge. They build a working Lego robot using the LEGO Mindstorms NXT
Last night was week #2 of the course and their mission as part of Alien Encounter was to design a plow for their robot that would push the most rocks across the finish line. Here is a video of my son’s last robot performing the task. One of the wheels got stuck and it ended up making the plow turn.
I am going to try to make a short video of each of their projects as the class goes along.
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5 opinions for Video - My Son’s Lego Mindstorms Robot in Action
Lucy
Jul 18, 2007 at 3:23 am
What a shame it didn’t finish … and what a great project/series of projects! I’d say that was ‘way cool’.
char
Jul 18, 2007 at 3:31 am
Lucy - apparently they had done a few other runs already before I got there and his previous runs were successful. I think it is just as cool whether it works perfectly or not - because if it does not, there is big learning involved.
Hsien Lei
Jul 18, 2007 at 2:22 pm
I hope there’s a class like that for my son when he’s older! If not, we may have to form a LEGO Mindstorms club. :)
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