Thursday, June 28, 2012

Mole Day Project 2011

Young humanoid was required to make a Mole Day (October 23) project for one of his classes.  Mole Day celebrates Avogadro's Number, 6.022 x 10^23.  Of course, he immediately turned to NXT.  Constructing a simple quadruped in the form of a horse, young humanoid also implemented a simple motor synchronization mechanism inspired by the mechanism on Laurens Valk's NXT 2.0 bonus model Manty.  A mol, named "Sir Mol" was mounted on top, and autonomous navigation was programmed.