Posted September 9, 20186 yr I built a fish that can be remote controlled. It can also swim standalone with an ultrasonic sensor. There's also a Youtube Video of the fish swimming. What do you think?
September 9, 20186 yr I love it. I built a line follower fish using NXT some 20+ years ago. The natural (and easy) left/right/left cadence makes the tail work and look great, it also was the easiest thing to program too. Kids loved it. Well done.
September 10, 20186 yr Always great to to see non-vehicle MOCs. This is particularly good too, with a very convincing swimming motion. I’m impressed, thank you for sharing.
September 10, 20186 yr Author Is this the right topic to post this? Are you interested in a video about the design process? Or rather about how to program this?
September 10, 20186 yr This is so cool! One of my favourite MOCs is the Shark by @Tomik (https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-1165/Tomik/9394-red-shark/#info), but you have brought the fish movement to another level. Great also that you are providing building instructions ...
September 11, 20186 yr 8 hours ago, Antonvh said: Is this the right topic to post this? Are you interested in a video about the design process? Or rather about how to program this? I think information on the programming would be really interesting, and perfectly appropriate in this topic.
September 11, 20186 yr Since it uses Mindstorm could you make a "hook" and program it to chase after the hook?
September 12, 20186 yr Very good looking model, and the swimming motion is very fluid and realistic. Remember having one of those fish following a string as a kid.
September 12, 20186 yr Cool! You can swap a few colours and this can be a Pokemon MOC - Magikarp, use splash attack!
September 12, 20186 yr Author 13 hours ago, Goldenmasamune said: Since it uses Mindstorm could you make a "hook" and program it to chase after the hook? I tried that, but the hook moves quite fast when it's dangling on a wire and the IR sensor is unable to track it. :/ Furthermore I tried building a snapping, biting mouth. But the strain on the model was too high to fish it out of the pond. The fish would need to be half it's current size I think to make this work.
September 12, 20186 yr 10 hours ago, Antonvh said: I tried that, but the hook moves quite fast when it's dangling on a wire and the IR sensor is unable to track it. :/ Furthermore I tried building a snapping, biting mouth. But the strain on the model was too high to fish it out of the pond. The fish would need to be half it's current size I think to make this work. I know this may be the little kid route, but could you use magnets?
September 12, 20186 yr Author 1 hour ago, Goldenmasamune said: I know this may be the little kid route, but could you use magnets? Nice idea. But the whole fish weighs about a kilo. That's hard to lift with magnets.
September 12, 20186 yr I thought the dog built from 42004 was weird, but this out-weirds it by a furlong. Superb job.
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.