Archives for the 'NXT' Category
Matlab Package for LEGO Mindstorms
Published on 9 Mar 2008 at 11:16 pm.
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Filed under Computation, Fun, Intelligent Systems, Lego, NXT, Research, Robotics, Software, Technology.
I recently received a comment on my post on controlling NXT robots with Matlab that pointed me to the RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox for MATLAB®, which is a public domain Matlab package that enables one to interface with and control LEGO mindstorms.
The RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox for MATLAB® was developed as a student project in […]
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Intelligent Instruments
Published on 6 Oct 2007 at 6:24 pm.
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Filed under Computation, Exploration, Intelligent Systems, Inventions, Lego, NXT, Programming, Research, Robotics, Technology.
One of my main research thrusts recently has been my work on desiging intelligent instruments. The idea is to develop truly autonomous scientific platforms. Such systems would be able to explore the surface of the more distant worlds such as Europa or Titan, or dive deep into the oceans on Earth to search for undersea […]
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LEGO Geneva Mechanism Instructions
Published on 23 Sep 2007 at 12:18 am.
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Filed under Fun, Inventions, Lego, NXT, Robotics.
Some time ago, I posted a little LEGO invention of mine, which implements the Geneva Mechanism. The Geneva Mechanism takes continuous rotary motion and converts it to intermittent rotations. This mechanism is used in film projectors to advance the film frame by frame.
The instructions for building this mechanism can be downloaded in this zip file.
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LEGO NXT Rocker-Bogie Suspension
Published on 24 Jun 2007 at 2:59 am.
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I have just uploaded three videos of a LEGO NXT rover that uses the rocker-bogie suspension system employed by the current Mars rovers. This design is based heavily on the design presented by Brian Bagnall in his book Maximum Lego NXT: Building Robots with Java Brains
I described the rocker-bogie suspension system in a previous post. The […]
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Building Lego Robots with Java Brains
Published on 18 May 2007 at 2:51 am.
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Filed under Exploration, Fun, Intelligent Systems, Lego, NXT, Physics, Research.
I finally received my long-awaited copy of Maximum Lego NXT: Building Robots with Java Brains by Brian Bagnall. I was pleased to see that in addition to the in-depth discussions regarding writing code for these robots in Java, that there were also some interesting projects.
My favorite was the Lego implementation of the Rocker-Bogie suspension, which […]
