Recent Work

Three weeks ago in Lego Robotics class we began setting up the missions and the game board. My teammates; Sean, Shayna, and Eric and I have set up the mission "Smart Medicine." During the process we found a solution to it. Our idea is to have a "cup" in the front of a worm-gear box that we will put the Buckyball in since we can touch it because it is in the homebase.
The robot will ride towards the "bone" andturn the "cup" until the Buckyball falls out, hopefully into the "bone." Also, during the process of building the mission we learned that assembling the mission ourseles and following the directions can help with learning the rules for the mission, finding a possible solution to it, and when you follow the directions you can see the thought behind the idea to the mission and its design. This year you can definetely see that the missions are being enhanced because they are no longer knocking a fish down they are more complicated. We decided to use a wedge for the mission "Atomic Force Microscopy" since an object has to give way when a wedge is used. Also, for "Smell" we will put something on the robot so that it can simply move the pizza molecules to the person's nose. This year First Lego League (FLL) is allowing the use of both RCX and NXT kits and since the NXT is more advanced than RCX FLL has made allowances for RCX users. Instead of being allowed to have one touch sensor, one light sensor, and one rotation sensor for RCX you can now use three rotation sensors, two touch sensors, two light sensors, and either a third touch sensor or a third light sensor.