BASK3TBALL (English version)

Here it is another robot ... A bit different than usual, and you will see why. This robot is a mixture of normal Lego pieces, with the Lego Technic parts, that are used on the set Mindstorms EV3. As you can notice by the name I gave him, this is a kind of basket of basketball where the goal is to get the balls pass through the tire that is serving as a basket! Unfortunately, the design is not the best compared with many similar games like bowling or pimball, but with the pieces that I have, is what I can do ...

This robot is mainly constituted by two bases. First, the most important base, which is where the table, the basket and the conduit through which the ball slides after being scored, are! The base that supports all this is the one where the end of the pipeline and the color sensor, which detects whether it is poin tor not, are too! Also on this lower base I put some "grids" for protecting the ball to not bounce away, and even a cover for the Intelligent Brick! On top of this cover I put the touch sensor, that you will realize what it is for.

The program for this robot, it is only "active" when the touch sensor is pressed, and it is when we get to throw. Whenever we score a basket and the ball passes over the sensor, 1 is added to the variable "Points". The value of this variable is shown on the display whenever there is a change in this value! The points are no longer counted from the moment the touch sensor to be pressed back!

Now let us see the usual video where everything that was described can be confirmed:

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