Young humanoid, seeing the Explorerbot challenge on NXTLog, was inspired by one of the award categories - the All-Terrain explorer. Young humanoid decided to make a robot that was truly all-terrain - both land and water! Young humanoid constructed a V-shaped wheel base frame utilizing six NXT 1.0 wheels and two 4X4 Off-Roader wheels on each side. He added two balls on each side to supplement the robot's buoyancy. In order to challenge himself and raise the electronics out of the water, young humanoid hinged the robot in the middle and added a device to automatically flip the wheel sets so that they faced downward. Two paddle wheels, each powered by its respective wheel set, moved the robot in water. Although it was fast on land, the robot was unstable and quite slow in water. However, young humanoid was quite happy with it.
