Keyboard Input 2 and Double-click

We were continuing working with the keyboard input today. I brought my bluetooth adapter and installed in on the local station. It installed to my astonishment.
After that we started to wonder what to do with the program we were doing.
It took us a long time to figure out what we were supposed to do.

Setting up the NXT brick, NTX drive and the connections. After all that we also had to insert a game controller so we could actually use the keyboard to move it.

We got it set but it still didn't work and we didn't know what's the problem. After some time we found out that when connecting to the brick we needed to DOUBLE CLICK it not just single click it. After that everything started to WORK.

The VPL program looks like this (click on the pic to enlarge it)

Zenja creating the space

Just a screenshot from today's Zenja's creation of the 3D space in which our robot will move. The space is interpretation of the second floor of Prague College.

Good job Zenja! ;)

Some photos!

Working hard is the essence of our team! Good job!

New pics! Good job guys!

Building the Robot in 3DMax

I started creating a Virtual Robot. I'm trying to make it look similar to the actual robot that we've created...

First keyboard input

Our task was to try to move the robot via keyboard input. We were supposed to do that in Microsoft Robotics.

There we can simply use default desktop joystick and connect it to the robot's drive. With this we can both move the robot in 3d environment and the real environment.
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I also created a program that should be able to use left and right keys to control the servomotors in the robot. (I used the tribot manifest...not sure if that works with vehicle type robot...hopefully yes).
The program uses bluetooth to connect to the robot and let him receive the inputs LeftY and RightY.

Keyboard Input - Left/Right

First Steps - NXT program

After assembling the robot we tried our first simple program. It took us some time to get it working - even going forward and backwards was a problem^^. Later we tried something simple with the sensors we had at our disposal.

The application we can set a list of commands for the robot to do. You simple drag and drop boxes. Each of the boxes has a unique function. We started with trying to make it move forward and backward. For that you use the very same box but you reverse the direction in the box properties. After that we tried to do simple conditions. From studying a guitar robot program earlier we learned that it has to be composed of a loop and a switch.

The problem we encountered was with the intervals. There's a picture of a small flower and a mountain. Then you have a slider with values. It took us some time to realize that the flower can be considered as 1 and mountain as infinite value. After that we managed to get the condition more or less right^^.

Building the robot

We decided to build a vehicle type robot that would later be shooting some objects. Later we found out that we chose the easiest type of robot to work with.

Here are few photos from putting it together...(you can also click on the photo above)
Good Job Team