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Lego Mindstorms In Space
ribbiting writes: "A father-son team have won the "Ultimate Builder Competition" (Lego Mindstorms) with their entry named "Jitter". The robot will fly to the ISS in November. It fits (whole) into a approx. 1'x1'x1' box and weighs less than 3 lbs. It's main mission is to collect small, flying debris. It can interact with the station walls and crew and supposedly has some light "mischief" programmed in as well (sneaking up on people, dancing). The story can be found here, de.news.yahoo.com, it's in German (sorry)." We mentioned the contest a few months ago. Altavista gives a semi-readable machine translation.
(teCHANNEL.DE) Konrad and Bastian black brook won the " Ultimate builder Competition " with its model " jitter " from Lego Mindstorms.
The small robot from Lego parts and technology will fly in November to the space station IIS. Of 124 participants in the competition with the slogan " Lego Mindstorms the last ten met goes space " to the final in Munich. In presence of jury protector and astronaut Ulf Merbold were explained to father and son black brook as the winner. The winner model jitter is in EATS flying around parts to in-collect, at least is programmed it apart from other functions for it. Special prices went to the muscle coach for astronaut the one sechskoepfiges team out of Austria/Germany and Switzerland built.
With jitters the crew gets an aid to the hand, which, if it in weightlessness works satisfactorily, freely in-collects flying
particles in the space station. In addition communicate jitter with tones and light signal on its finds or contacts with the cab wall. Jitter is based on the salesusual Lego Mindstorm parts. Hitachi H8 micro CONTROLLER, programmable chips, which are likewise standard, form the heart. Progarmmiert became jitter of Konrad black brook in Java (TinyVM). If jitter is switched on in the IIS under weightlessness, it must be brought into a calm orientation situation.
The Z-axis should show thereby direction passenger lighting, one permanent guideline assistance of jitters. Afterwards the robot turns
some 360 degrees of roles around its control parameters to initialize and can with easy thrust in travel be brought. Jitter works with impulse drive. But permanently a cam disk in a cage is propelled. With contact with the external wall the cage shifts. Depending upon impact direction such an impulse is produced into the opposite
direction. Otherwise is the robot with light -, contact and rotation sensors equipped it on its course to lead and steer are. Jitter task
it is to be in-collected flying around parts, which it sweeps with a broom from Lego hoses into a chamber in its korpus. If jitter pushes
against a wall, the chamber closes automatically, so that the past charge is not again scattered. Jitter reacted in addition over the contact sensors on caper flaxnesses and flips and is programmed, about on all kinds of nonsense Anschleichen and frightening, dancing and
continuous rotating. In addition it reacts to sign movements, which it evaluates with its infrared sensors.
One of the tasks for the Mindstorm technical designers was it to accommodate their robots into a crate of 30x30x30 centimeter. Jitter can be transported, which did not succeed to all models, therein in a piece. In addition the models may not be heavier than 1400 gram. For Bastian black brook, which had taken over the mechanical construction, was that the most difficult task. It has jitters taken and again (differently) assembled that it in the meantime know each part in the sleep, said so often apart it during the award of the prize in Siemens (Frankfurt: 723610.F, message) - forum Munich. The two Tueftler live in the control center in Moscow will see the start of their robot to the acid test in the universe (uba)
In the New York Times today there is an article about a guy who built a robot out of Lego which can solve the Rubik's Cube.
It uses a lego-cam linked to a computer with color recognition software and a rubiks solving program, but all the mechanical bits to physically manipulate the cube are Lego.
Stumped by Rubik's Cube? Let the Lego Robot Solve It
Hey cockgrabber.
Its 'LEGO Bricks' not 'LEGO'
A LEGO brick
2 LEGO bricks
Some LEGO bricks
Big fucking pile of LEGO bricks
OK?
Thankyou.
The Shut-the-fuck-up corrections squad.
BTW: '2 pieces of LEGO' is a poor example. Nobody says '2 pieces of pies', they say '2 pieces of pie'.