Friday, October 1, 2010

Day 7: Fixing Sobriety and an INDESTRUCTIBLE LEGO BOX!!


Basically, instead of turning on a single motor in order to turn, this version causes the opposite motor to reverse. This way, instead of moving forward while turning, it moves backwards, so it will be able to make sharp turns.


However, the original program looked more sober.

Afterward, we had some little problems to do.


This causes one motor to turn on when one switch is pressed and the other to turn on with the other switch is pressed. The motor is only on when the switch is pressed...


FINALLY. We made indestructible lego boxes!


The outside of the box...


And its inside!

Basically, it had to fall 2 m while holding some weights. The top and bottom of the box is held together by pegs (little sticks that go into the holes on the side of these special legos), and is incredibly sturdy. The sides are held together by vertical legos (using pegs). Originally, i only used the curved pieces to hold the top and bottom to the sides...

But it didn't work. So I extended the reach of the pegs so that two opposite sides held the bottom and the other two held the top. This worked much better! And the box survived the fall.

I was actually lucky because I had used 10 8 FLU (little studs) blocks to build the bottom, and 8 10 FLU blocks to build the top. So the holes were on opposite sides, and not much rebuilding was necessary.

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