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[74louloute]

Hey there !

This is a car I made a year ago, and I never posted here.
Recently I saw a dedicated LegoTechnic and Mindstorms Forum opened, so I decided to share my creation :

This is a self parking car. The light sensor detects an empty space big enough, then the car make manoeuvre.




The direction system :




Other side view :



Watch the video in action here

Hope you'll like it !  

[prateek]

woah, that works so well there's only one real car that parks itself and this is pretty similar. how long did this take?

[furious]

that is chill. Well done.

[74louloute]

prateek, on Mar 10 2009, 03:34 AM, said:

woah, that works so well there's only one real car that parks itself and this is pretty similar. how long did this take?

Thanks !
The conception of the car was rather quick, but the programmation phasis was very long. the biggest difficultie was with the motor control. Indeed, I didn't have a rotation sensor, so all the motor are controlled by time. This was the longest thing to do


Thanks furious !