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The White Duck
I have built a NXT Duck (scale 1:1), which looks and behaves like a real Duck.
For the looks I used ordinary Lego bricks and slopes.
To give the Duck the behaviour of a real Duck, it’s important that the Duck reacts on her neighbourhood and other animals. So the Duck can walk by herself. When she does this she evade objects (with ultrasonic sensor) and yellow marked places (with colour sensor). When she sees a blue line (with her colour sensor), she follows the line to her nest. In her nest she lays her eggs.
There where two eggs hatched out. I built these two duck chickens with Lego power functions.


Posted by:

 -Hupie-

Created:

 17 August 2010

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Tags:(?):

 pet, challenge, duck, animal, nxt, lego, Hupie, eggs, familly, roboticpet

Technology

Technical features include: 1. moving random at variable speeds. 2. avoiding objects with ultrasonic "eyes". 3. returns when crashed into object, to set itselves free. 4. avoids dangerous area's marked by yellow line. 5. creates random real Duck sounds as recorded. 6. is searching for her nest to lay her egg (following blue line) 7. Lay an egg when she has found her nest. (controlled by motor A) 8.White Duck shape & looks sculptured with Lego bricks; mainly white plates, bricks and tiles 9. Built in modules for easy acces (battery change, modifications, repairs).

Comments

69 comments

  • DoomTroll

  • cool

  • Posted 999 days and 15 hours ago


  • Dinoguy7719

  • Very realistic! This is awesome!

  • Posted 999 days and 10 hours ago


  • TheGuy299

  • i need to tell you...I LOVE DUCKEYS.

  • Posted 999 days and 10 hours ago


  • MySnailEatsPizza

  • Very realistic (on the outside). I do wish that you had made it use the third motor for something like the mouth instead of the eggs. Other than that,this is an awesome project.

  • Posted 999 days and 6 hours ago


  • diego6546

  • coooolllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Posted 999 days and 4 hours ago


  • project3074

  • This is so wonderful

  • Posted 998 days and 23 hours ago



  • RoboTyTy42

  • Super Cute!!! Great animal robot.

  • Posted 997 days and 2 hours ago



  • Grild

  • Awsome duck! looks great and i like the zamour-eggs:) 5*****'s

  • Posted 995 days and 17 hours ago


  • BooSter777

  • Amazing creative ability! 5/5

  • Posted 994 days and 0 hours ago


  • Mindstorms337

  • Cool but what did the rat do?

  • Posted 992 days and 7 hours ago


  • scotttw

  • wow this is very cool!

  • Posted 989 days and 5 hours ago


  • scott7893

  • CUTE Duck!!!

  • Posted 989 days and 2 hours ago


  • scotttw

  • yes the baby duck is very cute

  • Posted 987 days and 3 hours ago


  • lego.minifig

  • That's cute! Awesome robot!!

  • Posted 973 days and 8 hours ago


  • rockinjoeyt93

  • You know, I think that that has to win the pet challenge! It's so realistic! I like your chicks too. :)

  • Posted 949 days and 2 hours ago


  • MySnailEatsPizza

  • Good job in the pet contest. You did great and definitely deserved the award. :-}

  • Posted 941 days and 13 hours ago


  • good.enough

  • Totally awesome! I love the movie, Are the chicks run by an NXT or by Power Functions?

  • Posted 940 days and 10 hours ago


  • rockinjoeyt93

  • I knew you'd win! Congrats! :)

  • Posted 939 days and 5 hours ago


  • -Hupie-

  • Thank you al for your comments!!
    "good.enough" asked me: "Are the chicks run by an NXY or by Power Functions?"
    The answere is that they run bij Power functions. A NXT is to big to put in the chicks.

  • Posted 938 days and 6 hours ago


  • donchomp

  • may you please send the mouse on nxtlog

  • Posted 937 days and 0 hours ago


  • e7a7r7t7h

  • really realistic looking!!!! cool!!!

  • Posted 927 days and 14 hours ago


  • e7a7r7t7h

  • really realistic looking!!!! cool!!!

  • Posted 927 days and 14 hours ago


  • airboy1999

  • really realistic looking!!!! cool!!!

  • Posted 883 days and 0 hours ago



  • Mindstorms337

  • really realistic!!

  • Posted 826 days and 2 hours ago



  • Alexanderkahn

  • wow!!! thats amazing its so realistic... I like the chicks and how they come out

  • Posted 825 days and 23 hours ago


  • Buildingspree12

  • amazingly done!!!I could not have done better

  • Posted 824 days and 10 hours ago


  • MINDSTORMNXT201

  • wow i might try to build something simalar

  • Posted 823 days and 11 hours ago



  • NXTgo

  • Really cool. Can you also put LDD?

  • Posted 823 days and 9 hours ago


  • yoda0501

  • That's amazing!

  • Posted 823 days and 0 hours ago


  • airboy1999

  • how do you control the chicks?!

  • Posted 822 days and 23 hours ago


  • NXDave

  • Wow! Great job on the realism! Now all you need is a recording of a duck quacking to have the NXT play it! NXDave

  • Posted 822 days and 10 hours ago


  • blechmaus

  • That's absolutly cute.

  • Posted 822 days and 7 hours ago



  • yoda0501

  • how did the chicks move, did they have nxts? where did you get all of those pieces!!

  • Posted 821 days and 11 hours ago


  • mindstormcrazy

  • lol, i see a ball launcher in the rear...

  • Posted 821 days and 7 hours ago


  • wayne1881

  • How long did it take to build?

  • Posted 821 days and 1 hour ago


  • mindstormmaster8

  • how are the chicks controlled?

  • Posted 820 days and 5 hours ago


  • Myrsloken

  • Quite cool

  • Posted 820 days and 5 hours ago


  • alpha3939

  • best robot ive ever sean ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    on nxtlog

  • Posted 819 days and 22 hours ago


  • richie9798

  • Great use of motors and gearing to make the chicks move! Nice detailed duck too. I saw this on MOCPages!

  • Posted 817 days and 23 hours ago


  • robotmotor

  • You've got quit the zoo there!

  • Posted 816 days and 11 hours ago


  • -Hupie-

  • Hi everyone,
    Thanks for your comments!!! I was surpriced to find al your nice comments. Some of you asked me about the little ducks. I made them with powerfunctions. But the normal battery box was to big. So I made a connection to an 9v battery. You can steer these ducks with RC.
    Another question was: How long did it take to build?
    My answer: It took me 3 months to build it. But that wasn't full time work. (my teachers wanted me to do lots of homework :)

  • Posted 816 days and 5 hours ago


  • naboty3

  • pretty cool!

  • Posted 815 days and 1 hour ago


  • puffles420

  • cool duck!im getting an NXT for my b-day!theres a lego mindstorm project at my school that we build and program them.p.s we dont keep them.

  • Posted 792 days and 2 hours ago


  • legodude6763

  • If you use the power functions I.R. sensor (from the R.C.) and you get a HiTechnic I.R sensor you could get the chicks and the duck to interact with each other. I think yo would have to program it with a language like NXC.

  • Posted 765 days and 6 hours ago


  • JESUSFREAK1757

  • to puffles420: y dnt u getta keep em? it UR bday prezzie

  • Posted 672 days and 4 hours ago


  • puffles420

  • to jesusfreak you got it all wrong at school we dont keep em not for a bday presant.Check out my projects!

  • Posted 650 days and 4 hours ago


  • JESUSFREAK1757

  • to puffles: um i dont understand!

  • Posted 610 days and 7 hours ago


  • quinmannxt

  • i like duck's and chiken

  • Posted 541 days and 8 hours ago



  • RoBoTs9999

  • Wow! that looks sooo realistic!! One million stars out of five 5 stars.

  • Posted 408 days and 18 hours ago


  • RoBoTs9999

  • The rat looks so realistic too! Too bad it's a bit too big.

  • Posted 408 days and 18 hours ago


  • stormtrooper1611

  • neat! I like how it follows the line to its nest.

  • Posted 406 days and 12 hours ago


  • agentsky1022

  • are the chicks nxt? I couldn't figure that out

  • Posted 377 days and 3 hours ago


  • ikanbuild

  • woah! that was awesome!

  • Posted 334 days and 10 hours ago


  • giants76

  • cool

  • Posted 330 days and 2 hours ago


  • jaredgeo

  • cool 5 stars add on the IR link sensor so the chiks can move to also you can add on the touch sensor and press it so you dont have to have onlly 10 seconds to put the head back on.

  • Posted 321 days and 6 hours ago


  • Hi3833

  • AWSOME!!!

  • Posted 318 days and 3 hours ago


  • mydoglcars

  • 100000000000000000000000/5*!!!

  • Posted 308 days and 15 hours ago


  • gorays36

  • The rat was cool how it took the egg an ran away! The duck is GREAT, too! Overall amazing!!!

  • Posted 226 days and 4 hours ago


  • scottneu

  • very good design!!!

  • Posted 167 days and 2 hours ago


  • micahsdad7

  • that is boss!!!!!!!! so cool!! :)

  • Posted 74 days and 8 hours ago


  • franciscofabneves

  • Simply AWESOME! But I prefer smallest creations, wich everibody can build and have fun.

  • Posted 59 days and 3 hours ago


  • hunterbots

  • Why not post the rat???????????????????

  • Posted 3 days and 4 hours ago


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