Team Landroids has successfully completed the 4-months long Moonbots Chanllenge as the 1st place grand prize winner! We were invited to visit the LEGO Group at Denmark for 3 days at the end of September. See our video summarizing the Moonbots Challenge, reaction of winning Moonbots, photos from Denmark, and the live Moonbots mission demonstration to the [...]
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Mission (Near) Impossible
Posted by CopabX on August 25th, 2010
Our live webcast was one of the most stressful days of our Moonboots competition.
Moonbots Team Documentary Video
Posted by Gfare on August 22nd, 2010
The team documentary video was done on Friday and now posted! I like our team documentary, it was very difficult to get a fine balance between creativity and information, but I think that we have reached that point…. where we have plenty of information and yet it is entertaining and compelling to watch, to me at least.
Wrapping Up the Team Documentary
Posted by donger on August 21st, 2010
Last night, Gage and I stayed up to finish up the team Moonbots Documentary, while Karlin went out with his parents and stood in line for 3 hours for a “Midnight Madness” fish sale. (Is there such thing that could be more important than the Moonbots deadline?!)
A Midnight Run 8/20/10
Posted by CopabX on August 20th, 2010
Just wrote the robot return code, and went for a midnight robot test run. I have been putting in 10 to 14 hours a day programming this week in LabView, trying to reconstruct our code. Way too trigger happy with the delete button last weekend. Our team’s two other programmers Brian and Stanley are out [...]
A Work in Progress
Posted by CopabX on August 19th, 2010
Still doing some iron-coding here day and night….well, more like nights only, brain-dead and asleep during the day. Gage and Jeffrey are busy putting the documentary together. There are only the three of us left now to finish up everything. We are making progress, about as fast as our robot runs….somewhere between a snail and [...]
Robot Cam Footages 8/13/10 & 8/17/10
Posted by CopabX on August 17th, 2010
A weekend of non-stop re-programming in LabView after losing all of the NXT-G programs. From being able to get 5 to 7 loops, down to picking up 2 loops, here are some of the robot cam footages of our “progress”.
Two Weeks of Despair
Posted by CopabX on August 15th, 2010
It has been an eventful two weeks with two major setbacks! First we designed and built a masterpiece claw robot complete with EOPD, compass and ultra-sound sensors paired with an IR-transmitter, power function motors and a battery pack. This robot can pick up loops in any placement. Then our team had to make a heart [...]
Team Documentary Progress
Posted by Gfare on August 9th, 2010
Last week was my first week back on the team during Phase 2, I have been away at summer camp so far. When I walked in to the meeting, the very first thing I saw was this giant behemoth of a robot that had rubber-bands, counterweights, wheels and supports everywhere. It looks like something from Jurassic Park, but apparently it can be folded up to [...]
Robot Flips
Posted by CopabX on July 31st, 2010
Different robot designs were tested. This is a video of how well our robot ventured off the base ramp.