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Take a stand

Old crappy standMy bricks spend a lot of time not inside a construction of some kind since I spend most of my time developing software, rather than building. A couple of months ago I built a simple studded Lego construction to allow me to use two bricks at a tilt to allow easy reading and a way for me to keep the brick and whatever I was programming for next to each other.  It looks alright but the way it was constructed made it a real pain in the butt to change batteries.  So last night I got to thinking and played a bit with LDD and came with this:

Empty stand Pepper with Mindsensors NXTCamV3 Poppy with Codatext RFID sensor

The brick can slide in and out very easily and is at a nice, easy to read tilt.  I made it yellow because that’s the colour I almost never use when building a robot.  If you’re interested, you can download the LDD file right here: [LINK].

About Xander

Xander Soldaat is a Software Engineer and former Infrastructure Architect. He loves building and programming robots. He recently had the opportunity to turn his robotics hobby into his profession and has started working for Robomatter, the makers of ROBOTC and Robot Virtual Words.