Today we are learning about the NXT rotation sensor. There is a little trick to this, It is NOT a separate sensor at all. It is built into the motors of the NXT. The beauty of this is that it makes it easy to control exactly how far the NXT robots will go. There is more to this that will be made clear as we move into the CMU Robotics Volume 1 course lessons.
For today you will go to the CMU NXT Robotics Engineering Vol 1 course on the desktop like last week.
A) First We will become acquainted with the textbooks we have purchased to help work with the NXT robots.

Please read the page 1 - 10 and answer these questions:

1) What are the 3 steps involved with building robots?

2) When was Mindstorm NXT released?

3) What are the 3 functions of the color sensor?

4) What do we call the language we use to program the NXT?

5) What is an IDE?


B) Next  We will again open BASICs and explore the Robot Behaviors Section. Find the answers to the following questions:

6) How do you set the rotation sensor to make the robot move 720 degrees?

7) What do you set the Wait for block to if you want the robot to move forward 3 seconds?

8) What are the motor blocks set to in the example for 3 seconds?

9) What are the settings for the Wait for block set to under Sensors: Wait for touch?

10) What are the settings for the Wait for block set to under Sensors: Wait for sound?

11) What blocks are used to stop the robot? What are the settings on the blocks?