This is the final part of the "MATLAB meets Mindstorms" project at the university. In a group, we built a robot using LEGO Mindstorms and programmed it using MATLAB.
Our project is the closest we could get to a railgun: LEGO parts are accelerated using a wheel which is powered by 4 motors via a 1:25 gear translation to achieve astonishing speeds.
More facts:
- Two Mindstorms bricks, communicating via a physical button which is pressed using a motor (yes, seriously)
- The first brick ("master" brick) is the brain of the machine, the second one ("slave" brick) just powers the four acceleration motors (which therefore take up all the ports)
- An ultrasonic distance sensor to find targets in specified distance
- 360° rotation, gyro sensor to keep track of that
- All files starting with an
aare for the "master" brick, the one starting with abis for the "slave" brick
