Mjordan2nd

If you've never heard of Lego Mindstorms, you're missing out. These things are awesome little toys to play with when you're bored, and just see what you can get them to do. Basically, it's a legos set which you assemble into a car, man, whatever you like. They come with sensors, motors, and other parts which allow you to build a robot, and they are incredibly easy to program -- write the program in Java using their API, and upload it by a tower which uses infrared and hooks into your computer's USB port.

The problem is, I'm running out of ideas of what to do that aren't incredibly complex. I haven't been able to mess around with it too much, but here's what I've done so far:

• Got it moving
• Got a bump sensor on it so it reverses direction any time it hits an object
• Have a light sensor attached to the bottom so it doesn't roll off a table (99% of the time anyway )
• Have it follow a wall
• Working on getting it to follow black tape on the floor

As you can see, nothing that is too difficult to do. The only problem is, I'm all out of ideas as to what I can get it to do next. Any ideas?

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