Bulldozer Sumo

What happens when you take 5 stock LEGO Bulldozers (#8275), and make them into autonomous pure-LEGO sumo robots using an NXT with the Hitechnic IRLink to "drive" the bulldozers? Well, pretty much you get LEGO carnage, but you have a lot of fun in the process. All of these were fully autonomous (no remote control in combat), and used the stock Power Functions motors to drive the models. The participants were all members of the MCP (MINDSTORMS Community Program)

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• LEGO
• NXT
• Hitechnic
• Bulldozer
• robot
• robotic
• sumo

[RandomRocker1000]

um... can anyone tell me wts the nxt ir receiver for?

[brdavis5]

@RandomRocker1000 Well, you can use the IRLink (a 3rd party external sensor that functions as an IR *transmitter* for the NXT) to allow the NXT to imitate the LEGO IR remote controls. That's how the bulldozers were controlled here - they all used PF motors, but the NXT riding along could control those motors via the IRLink.

[MultiDjfa]

you guys are too old for this.........

[brdavis5]

@MultiDjfa Not even close. When are you too old to have fun?

[Spitfire727]

How do you programm them or what do you do to them to move like that?

[brdavis5]

@Spitfire727 Well... you program them. You program them to stay in the circle, and/or to try to find the opponent, to detect when they've been hit, and from where, and to take evasive maneuvers, etc., etc. There's a lot of things you can program them to do.

[bigubaby]

this by far have ben the coolest video i have ever seen my life is complete

[Cabal777]

Palestinians' worst nightmare!

[chaosweaver1000]

LEGO!!!

[SeAnStAmOn]

Something tells me that there were a couple of programming errors?

[90panni90]

Ur laughing is funny xD