Using 'Infrared-Link' to control PF motors from MINDSTORMS NXT

In this post I want to talk about robotizing LEGO TECHNIC creations.

The picture below shows a bulldozer 'robototized' by adding a MINDSTORMS NXT brick and a NXT IR-Link (made by HiTechnic) to a TECHNIC bulldozer 8275.



Powered by the latest LEGO Power Function motors and controlled by the NXT brick via a HiTechnic 'InfraRed Link' Sensor, the above autonomous robot has a mind of its own!

You can see it scanning the environment with the Ultrasonic sensors and then flattening anything in its path using the Ripper and the blade in the video below:

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