Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Building coarse robot

Building the robot to do the 4 sensor obstacle course will be very tricky and complicated. We will have to attach a sound, touch, ultrasonic, and light sensor all to one robot. Our robot is going to be jammed pack but it is possible to do.
First the light sensor, it will be easy because you can only put it in one spot. We placed it in the back of the robot facing the ground.
Secondly we attached the touch, you can only put it in the front of the robot to do what its supposed to do so thats what we did. It wasnt that very hard to attach.
Then we placed the sound sensor on the robot. We put the sound sensor on the side of the NXT facing up so that it could here the sound fairly easy and not get in the way of the touch and light sensor.
Lastly we put on the ultrasonic sensor. This was the hardest sensor to put on because we also had to put it in the front, so we put it right about the touch sensor. Another trick we did was made the touch sensor attractable so when it hit the wall it could move behind the ultrasonic sensor so it wouldnt get in the way.

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