Just got my hands on the Vision Command pack. Does anyone else have this? Been playing with it for about 20 minutes and have made some simple motion detectors and a piano
I don’t have the other packs yet so unfortunatly motion is out of the question atm for me, but some day I will get my hands on it!
In the meantime I would love suggestions of projects I could do with the VC pack. Also, does anyone know where I can get the building instructions for the camera stands they give you the parts for? It’s been years since I have built with LEGO so I am very rusty and could do with the instructions. So far I made 2 sets of gears, but don’t really know why!
Can’t wait till I get a full builder pack for Mindstorms, my poor little laptop won’t know what hit it!
My only complaint about VC was that it only runs on Windows 98. Unless they’ve updated the software that is.
As for things to make, my first project was a sort of theremin. I had a bunch of recorded .wav files on my computer and hooked them up to different parts of the vision pattern with motion detectors. It was fun to play with, but had limited notes.
The best project I’ve ever seen is the Lego Rubiks Cube Solver but that takes more lego, more patience and more work than most people want to put into it, even with the instructions.
I can’t really help you much, but I actually took a class on Lego Robotics at Indiana University a couple years ago. Needless to say, it was a lot of fun and I really did learn a lot. The textbook was Robot Visions by Isaac Asimov, as well as some other essays. It was in the CS department. The prof did an independant study with another guy and they built a colony of robots. He said that he made different classes, and modeled them after an insect colony. Different robots had different roles and such. This probably invovled 20 sets or so.
We all had to do final projects at the end. The best one I remember was a crane type deal, like those things you always see by the video games. There had the light sensor at the end of the crane and it moved around randomly on a grid and was supposed to pick up something, I don’t remember what, and then drop it off at a certain spot. It has been almost 4 years since I took the class, so there was probably more to it than that. That is all.
