Monday, July 5, 2010

Robotics Monday: NXTronauts

Name of Model: NXTronauts
Created by: Matthias Paul Scholz (I don't have a link for him personally but he blogs as part of the team at The NXT STEP)
Found at: http://thenxtstep.blogspot.com/2010/07/nxtronauts.html
Details: This batch of semi-autonomous NXT androids was also at this year's FANABRIQUES event. It's pretty common for LEGO conventions to have "themes" that are very loose and only attract a handful of theme-specific models. This year's FANABRIQUES theme was Space (which actually happens to be a popular theme that people tend to build in anyway). Taking up the challenge to bring the theme to the NXT, Matthias Paul Scholz built these two cute "astronauts" with one Mindstorms NXT 2.0 kit each. You can see in the video both a remote control mode (probably implemented via Bluetooth) and an automatic mode that passes out pamphlets.

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