MarbleMiser I
Marble Miser was designed to meet the challenge of the 4th Annual Lego Robotics Competition / Get together at U of T in Toronto Ontario. Many thanks to Calum and the boys for putting this together. It was the first event that I was able to attend, and it was a great time. The turnout yielded many more entrants than initially expected. To find out more about the event, visit RTL Toronto Website. Now to…
DominoBot
It had been a few months since I built my last robot (Climber). During the early summer of 2002, I received an email from Syngress. They had indicated that they were going to create a series of "10 Cool Lego Mindstorms " books, and invited me to produce a model for one of them. For some time I had the idea of building a robot that could mimic the activity of laying down dominos on…
MarbleMiser 2
MarbleMiser2 takes First Place in RTL15 - Deep Yellow Robotics Event here in Toronto. It was a great day. The competition consisted of 2 events. The first being Connect Four, the second being Marble Sorting. There were 9 robots competing in the Marble Sorting competition. All of which were great designs. Some robots (including MarbleMiser2) were designed to move around the field while picking up marbles and throwing out the opponents colour. Others used more…
Recycler
One of my first robots. Built to demonstrate simple navigation and pickup rotines. This is the back of the robot. It shows the pneumatics engagement component. When the front sensor is triggered, this gear shifts the CAM beam, which in turn changes the valve of the pneumatics. This will open or close the claw. (more…)