Sunday, March 25, 2012

LEGO RCX TURNTABLE MACHINE

 LEGO RCX TURNTABLE ROBOT
 Rear Touch Sensor
Front Touch Sensor and Pen

LEGO RCX TURNTABLE ROBOT

 This Robot Is designed to draw in a circle as it drives forward.  It is a take off of my First LEGO Machine where it was controlled by one motor.  This Robot has 3 motors and 2 touch sensors.  It is controlled by a LEGO RCX 2.0 Programmable Brick.  2 of the motors control the drive of the tracks.  The tracks are controlled independently.  The third motor controls the pen.  The touch sensors are located in the front and rear of the Robot.  The Program for this Robot is designed to drive forward until the front touch sensor hits the frame of the drawing area.  This tells the Robot to back up strait for one second.  Then the "drivers" side track stops for two seconds while the passenger side tracks continues to drive backward.  After that both tracks drive backward until the rear touch censer is activated.  That causes the Robot to drive forward for one second then the passenger side track stops for 2.5 seconds.  After that both tracks start driving forward until the front sensor is activated and the whole process starts again.  The Robot keeps driving back and forth on the paper until someone stops the program or the battery dies.  I have run it non-stop for 15 minutes.  Below is a couple of videos of the robot running.
Top View of LEGO RCX TURNTABLE ROBOT
 LEGO RCX TURNTABLE Robot on drawing showing the exterior frame that is 36" by 36"
 Full Drawing with 4 colors, Blue for a total of 22 minutes, Red for a total of 16 minutes, Green for a total of 20 minutes, and Black for a total of 13 minutes
Close up of Drawing

(Above)  LEGO RCX ROBOT running for about 2 min.

The machine is created completely by me (Tim Morrison) without directions.

2 comments:

  1. videos pretty cool dude. would be even cooler if you zoomed out to get the whole box....maybe borrow a tripod :) Nana wants to know what your doing there....just having fun or working hard ;)

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    1. Both...Having Fun and working hard...could even sell the drawings :) people have already asked...

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