Thursday, June 28, 2012

Candy Arcade Game

Young humanoid, wanting to raise money for his class at school, constructed a candy arcade game inspired by mindstorms-teen's entry into the People's Choice challenge.  It used three motors - one to move the claw along the y-axis, one to move it along the x-axis and the third to pick up and let go the candy.  The entire mechanism was activated by putting a coin into the slot on front, and then controlled using an acceleration sensor joystick and the orange button on the NXT Intelligent Brick.  While it worked pretty well, the limit switches for the "home" positions of the claw tended to bend out of the way or pop off.