BECAUSE RACECAR (LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0 Racecar)

Only question I have is that does it have an RB26DETT? Ah, car jokes aside, we're doin' it for Dale, and we're building a race car.

If you do become a racing driver, please keep it to the track and have your car licensed and prepared safely.

The GUI, Graphical User Interface, is crowded and I am unable to scroll out to see the whole thing. Here's a picture. 

I will post a link to the instructions. Also, look at how much stuff I have on my toolbar. 

The main things you will need are the Color Sensor, Servo Motors. the main brick, and WHEELS!

So, after you move your program---in this case, it is called "ColorRace"--- to your main brick, start construction!

Here is the link to the construction steps and programs so you can build your very own race car.

http://www.nxtprograms.com/NXT2/race_car/steps.html

Some of the last few steps are to make it more pretty, where as I went for a project car build or a missile build.

Also there are instructions for the two-button steering "mod" for the car, but I left those out. 

First you wanna get TWO of your THREE servo motors and build some frames to support the weight.

After you build frames, you take some axle pieces and connect the wheels to them. After that, get your gears and some pillars to make it a big piece. If you see the piece/brick in the middle of the picture, you can see that it is in fact the COLOR SENSOR!!!

Granted, this is when the car was fully built, but that's another story.

Next, you build a steering rack for the THIRD servo motor so it can steer the wheels in the front. This is not AWD (All wheel drive) or FWD (Front Wheel Drive); you'd probably need a few servo motors extra or a giant, super complex set up.

After you set that up, there will be some gears that will move from the servo motor to control steering. You will need another set of wheels set up to attach to the servo motor (via the axle rod).

Now you can see that you have both pieces set up. But how will i connect them? Connecting pieces, of course!!!

After you connect your car together, now you need your cables that should have come with your set. Attach the drive and steering motors to ports C, B, and A. Your color sensor should be connected to port 3 on your main brick. If you have put these in ports incorrectly, test and try again.

All said and done, your car, without the roof , windshield, and all that stuff, should look like this.

Conglaturations! (Yes, before you ask, I did mean to spell it that way.) You have successfully built your own LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0 Race car! Think of it as an advanced version of "Go Bot," a creation designed by the author of "LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0 For Teens" as a basic robot. "...you learned the fundamental steps involved in robotic development: design, build, program, and test." (Ford 222).

Now that you have more knowledge of robotics, what do you think is possible with the LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0 kit?

Citation: Ford, Jerry Lee. Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 for Teens. Boston, MA: Course Technology PTR, 2011. Print.