Mini bot Brain

[DarrinMunter]

Originally Posted by wilsonmw04

I run FIRST FTC 35. It's not the exposure that worries me. It's the acceleration/forces that the brain will be regularly subjected to while riding on the backs of FRC bots. We have had several occurrences of our NXT freezing after a hit during FTC season. I am hesitant to rely on them at this moment.

You could use some of the rubber tubing and make shock mounts for the NXT.

[TheGuyz]

So we dont need a brain to run the minibot?

[JB987]

Originally Posted by TheGuyz

So we dont need a brain to run the minibot?

You need a brain to design and build the robot but not to run it...no, you don't need the NXT if you make use of the 2 allowed standard light switches.

[Andrew Zeller]

You are exactly right. All you need is a light switch facing upward on the top of the mini bot to stop it once it hits the top of the pole and one that is pushed when the minibot is "attached" to the pole and ready to go up. Simple circuitry

[bls0620]

Originally Posted by SamRI

Is the brain for the mini bot really a Nxt brain or is it something else, and also what is the programming language we can use to program the mini robot?

You could use RobotC or LabVIEW depending on your preference. What I can tell you is programming in LabVIEW isn't hard at all. You can download the NXT toolkit here (and you need this!)