NXT

-B. Garnett , R. Daugherty

What is NXT?

Mindstorms NXT is a intelligent robotic building system produced by LEGO. This system imitates the senses of the human body by the utilizing various sensors to perform different functions. The use of simple software and building block skills a person can build and then train it to perform any task.

What Does the kit consist of?

NXT Brick (brain)

-The nerve center of your NXT bot.

It is a 32 bit brain that controls the operations that your designed bot can do.

NXT Light Sensor

-This sensor is one of two ways that allows the bot to see. Instead of reading colors like we do as red, blue, green this sensor reads the colors in a grayscale by the depth of the color

NXT Sound Sensor

-The sound sensor allows the bot to hear. By reading the decibel levels in a designated area. The sensor has the ability to read up to 90 db which is about as loud as a lawn mower. This allows the bot to have the power of the human ear.

NXT Touch Sensor

-The touch sensor allows the bot to sense when it is being touched.

NXT Ultrasonic Sensor

-The ultrasonic sensor is the other way that allows the bot to see. It operates by sending out a sound wave and then waits to see how long it takes for that sound wave to return. From this technology it can read something in front of or around it. It is the same thing that bats see.

NXT Servo Motors

-The servo motors are what drives the different operations you want your bot to do.

NXT Software

-The product software allows you to program your bot to perform a certain operation that you built it for.

Finish Products and Videos:

Battle Bricks Website
-http://www.battlebricks.com/
-http://kisd.de/~krystian/nxt/

Lego Mindsorms NXT Homepage
-http://mindstorms.lego.com/eng/LW_dest/Default.aspx

NXTacy.com Forum Site
-http://lejos.sourceforge.net