ROBOTMAK3RS Blog

On Saturday 19 April, a group of high intelligent people were gathering for a special weekend to do all sorts of activities. I’ve been asked to do a special workshop on LEGO MINDSTROMS. 14 kids in age 8 to 16 were challenged to build a robot that could collect 9 bars standing in the middle of an arena. Mindstorms was new to all the kids. Initially I explained how to build a small base robot (the 30 min retail box model) and how to do the base actions in NXT-G. 7 teams were building and programming robots for almost 5 hours. The goal was to collect the pillars, of one color and bring them back to their base(corner). Points were given: -1 point for pushing/ tipping the pillar over. -3 points for bringing the pillar back to the base. -30 points bonus, for bringing only one (of the three) colors back. -12 points bonus for not toughing the walls of the arena. - extra bonus points could be earned for added value (like sounds). The best team was the Blue Bot Team with 15 points. Considered th...