Nicholas Swiatecki’s blog

The other day my math teacher told me about a competition in Denmark, which is the national qualification for the “World Robotics Olympiad ” and he asked me if I was interested. I of course said yes and a couple of days later me and to of my friends submitted our entry.

The competition is divided into two categories, Open and regular, the regular involves building a robot from Lego Mindstorms NXT that can move ping-pong balls and tumble-over soda cans. (you can read about the Open category on the web-page)

So if you have to build a robot, what do you need? oh yes, LEGO! - a couple of days ago I was informed the Egå Gymnasium(my high school) had bought 2 sets of Mindstorms. I felt like a little boy again

Now on to MRDS(how do they come up with such fantastic product names?). I will  tell more about this product some other time, but I just want to mention how simple it is to do quite advanced stuff.

You drag and drop some “blocks” and boom after 10 minutes I can control my robot(well its a simulation because the Lego is at my friends-house) with my Xbox 360 controller. And in theory(I will test this) I should be able to change 1 value, and this could run of the NXT