NXT Drag Racer
Deanna Margo, Darrah Margo,
Melissa Kinsman
Problem
Make an NXT drag-racer robot that goes as
fast as it can for 20 feet and then stops.
Original Design
Our original design
was a small nxt robot
that would be
programmed to stop
at 20ft and move
quickly by the sound
of clapping . It would
then pick up speed as
it goes. Then we
would clap again to
make it stop. We
decided to come up
with a better design
then this so that the
robot could go even
faster. We wanted it
to be more effective
Pseudo Code
Final pseudo code :
ProblemGet the robot to go as fast as it can and
stop after 20 ft
Plan- When you press the orange buttons the
motors will activate and go forward as fast
as possible for twenty feet
Beginning pseudo code :
ProblemGet the robot to go as fast as it can and
stop after 20 ft
Plan-When you clap, the robot will go forward
as fast as possible.
- When you clap again, it will stop (after
20 ft.)
-As the robot is moving it will get faster
Improvements made
While building our robot we realized we needed to make numerous
improvements. We added gears, 1 more motors, and more wheels to speed
up the robot from its original design. We also added
Final Design
Our final design for
our nxt robot is with
a ultrasonic sensor.
The purpose of our
nxt drag racer is to
go as quickly as
possible for 20ft
and stop before
bumping into
anything.
We decided to modify the
original design because the
first robot we built did not
go very fast. So, we built a
new robot that would be
much quicker and much
more effective. we added
an ultrasonic sensor so
that are robot would move
more quickly to the finish
line but stop before running
This is all of us with are final design built
and completed.