{"id":1884,"date":"2013-08-16T19:01:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T09:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2019-06-27T12:27:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T02:27:53","slug":"the-stubborn-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/the-stubborn-car\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stubborn Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/stubborn-car-rcx.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13819\" src=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/stubborn-car-rcx-300x230.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/stubborn-car-rcx-300x230.png 300w, http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/stubborn-car-rcx-768x588.png 768w, http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/stubborn-car-rcx.png 820w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Think of a way to design and construct the stubborn car: a car that will always return to its original place no matter how far it is rolled away from its starting point.<\/p>\n<p>Tip: How can you track the rotary motion of the car&#8217;s wheels?<\/p>\n<p>This challenge provides a great introduction to the idea of a proportional control.<\/p>\n<p>Although the attached lesson plan was written for the RCX, this is a challenge idea that could be implemented with the EV3 or NXT.<\/p>\n<h2>Resources<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Proportional-Control-RCX.pdf\">Proportional Control lesson plan &#8211; RCX + ROBOLAB (PDF)<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think of a way to design and construct the stubborn car: a car that will always return to its original place no matter how far it is rolled away from its starting point. Tip: How can you track the rotary motion of the car&#8217;s wheels? This challenge provides a great introduction to the idea of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":13819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[143,182,183,87],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}