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After spending so much time in computer graphics, I feel more relax when playing with the Lego Mindstorm NXT. I got this thing on Oct 2006 as soon as it was available in Hong Kong.

 

5. A biped using 3 motors, can run autonomous or remote controlled with a joystick.
4. A robot arm using 3 motors which can run point to point, learn its movement through teaching it (moving it manually), and it will playback the movement (approximately only).
3. Mybot is a compact vehicle robot that can patrol around, and also easy to replace batteries. I used it to test out RobotC (a text based programming environment to replace NXT-G) which I purchased in January.
2. I build the tribot which exactly follows the Lego instruction, what I wanted to do here is to let it find an object itself by rotation scanning its surroundings, when found, go and grab it.
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The first robot I assembled is the Alpha REX. I followed the instruction and everything completes smoothly. Observations and things learned are listed in the following page, click the image to read them:
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