First official project lesson in school

Today is our first offical school lesson for our project. We've received information about how we are supposed to work and what the result is supposed to be. We will soon meet our mentor and discuss our plans.

Later this afternoon we will test a new navigator class and a new Accelerometer/Tiltsensor that we've bought. We will also try to create a simple prototype for our product. With the sensors and robot we have and the new navigation class we're working on we should be able to create something that can follow a wall and map out its' contours without too much trouble.

First test of the new sensors

So we finally decided to buy the sensors I told you about a couple of weeks ago.
We bought this from Mindsensors.com:
* High Precision Long Range Infrared distance sensor for NXT (DIST-Nx-Long-v2)
* Multi-Sensitivity Acceleration Sensor v3 for NXT - (ACCL-Nx-v3)
And this from HiTechnic.com:
* NXT Compass Sensor
* NXT Extended Connector Cable Set



And now they've finally arrived to Sweden :)
I've been able to test the Compass and the distance sensor so far, Josef still got the Acceleration Sensor at home and we will test it together when we meet in a couple of weeks.

Anyhow they look really good :) The accuracy of the distance sensor is very high, it gives you the distance in mm and it works good!



I put together a simple bot to test out the CompassNavigatorin LeJos.



We will do some more advanced stuff soon!