Nice job. I’m not sure that it doesn’t qualify though – on the turtle challenge page, it says that your robot has to be able to lay on its back and flip itself over, but I don’t understand that to mean that the robot has to be able to flip itself onto its back. A turtle can’t flip itself onto its back, after all Of course, Frits is the one to answer that question officially.
The question I’d have is about the fact that its arm is at an angle. What if it gets flipped over in the other direction? Is there a way to make the arm sit flat so that it works no matter which way the robot gets flipped over?
A) The challenge is poorly written (sorry) - But I will not re-write it now that we have a contester.
B) There should not be any angle that the robot can lay on, without it flipping back on it’s “feet”.
TCG is right; It is not the point that the robot should tip itself over. The point is that if the robot somehow is turned “upside” or “sideways” or whatever possible… it should always be able to flip onto “navigational” again… And show that it can drive afterwards, navigating
So… I’d say; This is one very good attempt. If you can show that there is no angle that it can lay on, causing it not to be able to flip back…and if you can show that it navigates after it is back… Then I send you a package
It looks to me that there are several angles in which it can get stuck, where “the flipper” does not work? Am I right? if not, then show us
the navigation is completely different system to the flipper arm thing.
in the video you see while the robot is upside down its wheels are still goin. the navigaiont system is never interupted. which has its advantages. ill get onto that tonight then for you fritsl
there is a flaw. a flaw i found was that the arm was a strut to hold it in a position that stopped it from being able to get back up. buti am able to easily fix it.
i will have a new video and new… moddified robot. to win the challenge
well you can integrate lego NXT with more things, like use it to make some part of the calcs, or motion, and use picaxe or arduino for more things
if you don’t have other ways to comunicate betewne platforms, you can always make a led with a LRD (ligth variable resistence) to make them talk… (like turn on or of a ligth you can switch to 1 or 0 a signal, that the other platform will know what it means… just put all inside a black box, and your connection is done…
the main problem of humanity the main problem of humanity now is programing… we have strong motors, we have nice video cameras, we have nice speekers, gyrascope, acelerometer, sonars, radars, a infinity of sensors, but we don’t know how to program them well… if we do… we can make machins better then people… so we need to bet in programing!!
Of course, Frits is the one to answer that question officially.