Monday, May 25, 2009

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!