Monday, August 11, 2008

11 August 2008 - Building the Tribot

First day - Introduction day

Our first steps into NXT-G were made thanks to professor Luis Sanchez from Madrid.
In the first lesson he described the how a robot should be built, starting from designing it and going through programming and build its mechanical structure up to testing and finally enjoying it. We also had a look at the NXT-G editor and we were happily surprised that it is not that hard to be used.


After a break we were invited to get to the laboratories and have some practice on what we discussed earlier. And it came the hardest part of today: getting friendly with all the Lego pieces! It hasn't been that easy to put all the tiny parts together in our Tribot. It took us some time and efforts to go through all the six step needed...

First of all... let´s try to organize everything we need











Building...



Thinking....














Building again...




And finally... here it is:




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