NXBike

NXBike was a neat vehicle that "balanced" on "two" wheels. Actually, it cheated. The wheels were actually two wheels each, giving a wide surface area to balance on. Even though it was not a true motorcycle, young humanoid liked this project.

Rickshaw of the Future

Rickshaw of the Future was another one of young humanoid's projects. It was a mobile rickshaw that used three motors, two to drive, one to steer. Unfortunately, young humanoid designed it to hold a stuffed frog! NOT ME!

Halftrack V2

Here is the second halftrack young humanoid made. This time it was larger, and had a turret on top that could rotate and fire LEGO Zamor Spheres! Again, this was remotely-controlled using a second NXT. (I [and young humanoid] think he does too much of that)

Walkingthunder - The Dragon

Young humanoid saw a NXT building challenge on a website. The theme was "Build an Animal." Naturally he wanted to enter. But what should he build? Well, not a "real" animal, that's for sure..
First of all, what is it? Well, young humanoid hopes you can tell that is is supposed to be a dragon, a mythical creature. Secondly, where did young humanoid get the crazy idea? Of course, it was the website. Young humanoid saw a great bipedal dragon on the same website hosting the building challenge so he tried to build something like it. As you already know, young humanoid is horrible at bipeds. Naturally it was a failure. So the design was switched to a quadruped and WALKINGTHUNDER was born....

Young humanoid thinks that this is his best-designed robot ever. Of course, it isn't!! I AM!

MTV V3

Here it is! The third vehicle in the Most Terrain Vehicle (MTV) Series! MTV used Power Function and NXT elements to make a four wheel drive robot with two wheel steering and all wheel independent suspension. The whole thing (once again) was remotely controlled by a second NXT. I asked young humanoid if it could drive on grass and he told me that he can't remember if he had tested it or not. Shame! In any case, he also says that this is not the final MTV design.

X-10!

Here is X-10, another robot in young humanoid's X series! This one was much like X-9 but also very different. It had tracks and two NXTs, could rotate its upper body on a turntable, and had no gun. Well actually it did have a gun, but young humanoid did not like the looks of it so he took if off.




Also built around this time were X-2 and X-3! Both mobile, X-2 using one motor and X-3 using two.










And here, we face a very interesting and mysterious "hole" in my family line. We have:
X-1, (ME!!) X-2, X-3, X-5, X-6, X-7 and so on...............

But what about X-4? *Spooky organ music plays*

Dog

Nothing to say, this one was just a hastily-made dog.

Four Wheel Drive Car V3

Even though young humanoid could not conquer bipeds or traversing grass, he did accomplish this: Four wheel drive.
It took young humanoid three tries to make a four wheel drive vehicle, and this is his success. It used two universal joints in the front to give it four wheel drive. It was remotely controlled using a second NXT.

Another "Biped!"

This time, on another one of his attempts to make a biped, young humanoid tried to copy the design of a biped he saw on a website. I won't even bother saying how it turned out. (Okay, it was horrible)

MTV V2

Young humanoid came back to his Most Terrain Vehicle (MTV) series, and made MTV V2. This one was rear wheel drive and had shocks only on the rear half of the vehicle. However, young humanoid was not satisfied with its attempts to ride on grass....

Bionic Spider

One day young humanoid had a friend over and they built this. Two NXTs, six motors, huge arms...... It was a mechanical spider. It rode on two wheels in the back, and two legs in the front. Two motors made its arms go up and down. Unfortunately, young humanoid did not make a good program for it! (I have no idea why he leaves so many projects un-programmed!)

Bulldozer

Young humanoid put the NXT on his Bulldozer LEGO set and got this-bulldozer controlled by NXT!

The White Tortoise

NXT+NXT+RIS 2.0+Power Functions=24 AA batteries
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Well, both actually. So one day young humanoid takes out all his LEGO and builds this. It was a huge, mobile, weapon-bearing vehicle. It's weapons included two rubber band guns, one missle and....well....this.
It was a tiny, tracked vehicle made out of Power Functions. And if you look closely, you can see it on the back of the big one. You guessed it, it comes right off the big one's back. As well as being mobile, it had it's own rubber band gun.





So, naturally young humanoid wanted to remotely control all of this. So, this time he came up with this:It was a remote control - made out of RIS 2.0 and a Power Functions remote. Now young humanoid had a special piece of hardware called the "IR Link," which gave the NXT the ability to instruct the RIS 2.0 to move it's motors. But it also could instruct the RIS 2.0 to read its sensors. So, with some programming, young humanoid made the RIS "controll" the NXT!



Of course, young humanoid could not come up with all of these ideas on his own. He got the idea for this project from LEGO's discontinued theme "Exo-Force" and the NXTLog user rammjet's project Armadillo.

Young humanoid really liked this project. Me? I think it was a waste of batteries!

An Earth-Friendly Link......

This one also requires a link.
http://mindstorms.lego.com/nxtlog/ProjectDisplay.aspx?id=612560b6-d1f9-486a-9f3e-b0badfb5f144
Enjoy.

Tank V2

Remember Tank? Well, after young humanoid got some new Power Function elements and the like, he make the second version of Tank. This one had some new features, it used tracks instead of wheels, it could raise and lower its gun as well as fire it and it could rotate its turret unlimited times around. But some bad points arose. It didn't really look like a tank, and its turret could not operate its driving base when it was rotate away from facing forward. Like the first version, it was remotely controlled via a second NXT.

ME!!!

Yes, you read that right, after young humanoid made X-9, his sister made ME!!!! The greatest robot in the X series!!!!! Sure, I'm simple (seven pieces, I'm proud of it) but simplicity is key to a great robot!

X-9

Here was a really great robot, another one of my ansestors! Well, actually at this time, he was more like a brother. This one used two NXTs and some new Power Function elements. He had so many functions, and was young humanoid's best project at the time. For more information, please see the first posts of this blog.

MTV V1

Young humanoid got some shock absorbers for his birthday, and wanted to build a robot with them, so he decided on an off-road robot. He made a goal, to build a remotely-controlled robot that could go over grass. Here is his first attempt, Most Terrain Vehicle (MTV). This one did use shock absorbers, but was not a great robot. It could not go over grass, and the shock absorbers were way too soft, making the wheel tilt inward.

Small Halftrack

Not much to say on this one. Just a small half track that avoided obstacles.

Zamor Turret

Here's a better one. This one's main feature was that it could fire marbles. Actually, they were Lego marbles, plastic ones, called "Zamor Spheres." This machine could also rotate unlimited times around without tangling one wire and raise and lower the marble-shooting assembly. The entire thing was remotely controlled.

Excavator and Room Gaurd

Here are two projects young humanoid isn't that proud of:

1. Excavator. Young humanoid did not like the design and never programmed it. On top of all that, he took realy bad pictures.

2. Room gaurd. This one spun around untill it saw something, then charged forward and fired rubber bands. It also had a plow in front of it which could automatically moved up and down. This one probally did not need two NXTs.

X-8

Ah, here is one of my ancestors! X-8, the forth robot in the X series. He used two NXTs, but young humanoid never programmed him! For more information, please see the first posts of this blog.

Small Rover

This one was an attempt to make the smallest robot possible. Young humanoid did a pretty good job on it, I think. It had a touch sensor between the two motors, used to make the vehicle sense obstacles and avoid them.

Ambulance

Here's a simple, remotely controlled vehicle. Young humanoid tried to model this one after an ambulance, but he did not do a very good job of it! This one's interesting feature was two light sensors on the top of it that flashed red.

"Biped" and Remote Controller

Here's two projects:

First up is another one of young humanoid's attempt to make a biped. Needless to say, this one did not work well either.

Next is a controller, designed to remotely control an second NXT by BlueTooth. This one was never programmed.

Stationary Camera Robot

Young humanoid entered into the camera robot competition a second time, with this. This one's special feature was that it could turn the camera's flash on and off, as well as press the shutter button. If there was not enough light in the room, the flash would be turned on. If there was enough light, the flash would not be turned on.

Mobile Camera Robot

That website was making young humanoid crazy! (Not really, he just took a lot of inspiration from it) The site hosted a competition, and young humanoid entered. The competition theme was a robot that carried a camera. Young humanoid made this:

This robot was mobile, and carried a camera. You might be wondering why did it have two ultrasonic sensors, and why was one in such a lofty position? Well, young humanoid had the idea that the robot was to follow a line to an object, stop and press the shutter button on the camera if both ultrasonic sensors saw it, meaning the object was a tall one. If only the bottom ultrasonic sensor saw it, it would follow the line more distance, then take a picture.

Tank

Young humanoid couldn't stop looking at that MINDSTORMS website, so........

He was very inspired and made this.

It was supposed to be a tank. But I think we can all agree it does not look anything like one, right? So young humanoid came up with this:

Young humanoid liked this one a lot better. It could move, rotate its turret, and fire rubber bands. The yellow brick on top, which was the inteligent brick of an older version of NXT, controlled the gun. That brick was programmed to fire the gun when its light sensor saw light, which the NXT provided via its light sensor. The whole thing was controlled via a second NXT in the form of a joystick.

NXTerrasaurus

Looking at a website, young humanoid got the idea to make a dinosaur, and NXTerrasaurus was what he came up with. Like Six Legged Line Follower, this one also used two motors, as well as only one NXT (the two were acctually both constructed at the same time). But unlike its companion, NXTerrasaurus was programmed to avoid obstacles.

Six Legged Line Follower

Young humanoid made this one with the vauge idea of entering an online competition, but it came to nothing. Anyway, the robot used one NXT, two motors and eight legs. Unfortunately, it was never programmed. The big plate in front of it was supposed to be a bumper.

RC Car

Here's another one of young humanoid's first dual-NXT projects. This one is a car with a remote control. One NXT brain was in the car, one in the controller and they communicated using
BlueTooth. The car was originally four wheel drive (this one is two wheel drive), but young humanoid could not get it to work!

An Icy Link............

This one also requires a link.
http://mindstorms.lego.com/nxtlog/ProjectDisplay.aspx?id=57b608b8-4306-4938-b3fa-3da26b599a2d
Enjoy.

Then....X-7!

Since he had gotten his second NXT, young humanoid had not made anything really great--until when he put some parts together, and got this

X-7

The first working robot in the X series! This was a great moment for young humanoid. More information on X-7 is in the earliest posts of this blog.

From Small Biped------To Big Biped

Around Christmas young humanoid attempted to make a biped: Here is what he got.

Young humanoid has always been bad at making bipeds. This one was his first recorded one, and it was not great. Why? It could not lift its feet off the ground, so it was not a true biped. Little did small biped know that it would get a BIG upgrade (or should I say a complete taking apart, going through different models then)......

Little biped picked up three more motors (for a while) and a second NXT!

Unfortunately, this one was not that much better. It was copied from another biped young humanoid saw, and it could only take about two steps before falling over.

Zamor Sphere Launcher

This is a simple project of young humanoid's.  It is a Zamor Sphere launcher inspired by that of rammjet's project TRICKY TREATER!.

Bump and Go Backwards Car

This is a simple robot that would move forward until its touch sensor was pressed, then move backward the same distance.

Prototype: Arm

Here was the final prototype: A robotic arm with a raising and lowering arm, rotating base, rotating wrist and opening and closing claw.

Like the other prototypes, it did not really operate by itself.

Tribot "Upgrade"

Another one of young humanoid's ideas was to make four robots that were better than the robots with instructions supplied in the NXT kit. Here was his "upgrade" for the three-wheeled robot in the kit, "Tribot":

Unfortunately, it was not an upgrade. The structure of the robot was not strong, there was no third motor, ect.

Butler Robot

It was Thanksgiving. Young humanoid thought that it would be a nice idea if he could make a robot to deliver food from the kitchen to the table. He built this robot. It's original program was to have the robot move to the table all by itself, but did not work. Then young humanoid made a line in the ground for it to follow. That did not work either. Finnaly, he made a robot with RIS 2.0 that could follow a line and had the NXT follow it.

NXT + Nitro Menace

Young humanoid had an NXT, and his friend had the LEGO set "Nitro Menace," so.......

They decided to combine the two. Unfortunately they did not have much time to do this and the car ended up not looking how young humanoid liked. But, it did work.

Invertibility

Young humanoid discovered a sumo robot contest on a website (http://www.mindstorms.com/ again), so he decided to build a sumo robot to enter. This is what he came up with.

Why was this unique? It was invertible, which meant that it could run when it was flipped over. Young humanoid named it "Invertibility." For the relatively creative idea, the program for this robot was horrible, young humanoid realized later that it would make the robot do exactly what it was not supposed to do: Drive out of the ring.