Box Robot Two. Push/Pull attachment with a Rack on the right side
Need to transfer circular into a linear motion. You need a rack. Here is an attachment with a rack for our box robot.
- #511
- 30 Mar 2017
FIRST LEGO League (FLL) is the most popular LEGO Mindstorms Robotics Competition. Each year the season starts in Augusts and completes by May. We've created a lot of resources for FIRST LEGO League to help teams prepared, learn and have fun. Here are most of the tutorials, building instructions and courses for FLL
Here we collect resources that are common for most LEGO Mindstorms robotics competitions. The resources here could be used for FLL, WRO, general line following, sumo and many more.
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Using LEGO Mindstorms EV3 and NXT robotics kits we give curriculum ideas, share professional experience and teach students to think and develop as engineers. The goal of this category is to group specific examples from specific missions.
Contains resources for LEGO Mindstorms competitions. There are many LEGO competitions using EV3, NXT and RCX robots. These competitions have some similarities, but could be quite different in general. Most popular are of course FIRST LEGO League and World Robotics Olympiad.
Need to transfer circular into a linear motion. You need a rack. Here is an attachment with a rack for our box robot.
The next step of lifting a robot to a mission model is to try to use a rack.
Build a rack and try to lift the robot with this rack.
Using the rack depends on the experience of the team. Based on this a different number of gear wheels and racks would be used.
Building a rack is a very important skill during competitions. You should try to build one, learn how to use it and have it as a tool for you next robots. But for this particular BoxRobot, we will not continue with a rack.
Let us do a quick recap of the whole lifting mission and its solution