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Robert Cailliau website
Came across a nice little site about LEGO... It's not very elaborate but it includes some nice schemes and drafts useful for many builders.It contains some "pocket book reference material" that always...
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LEGOWORLD 2012 Zwolle (NL) about to start
Are you ready? Tomorrow LEGOWORLD Zwolle opens the doors to the publicAnd we are about to show you some awesome MINDSTORMS models.The Wheelchair, the Le-GoKart, Laurens Valk is happy to talk to you...
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Zwolle, i miss you!
For all of you out there who cannot make it to Zwolle this year for LEGOWORLD 2012,Martyn and his friends are making us cool videos to share all we are missing in MINDSTORMS awesomeness!!!We can take...
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LEGOWORLD 2012: Day 3
And here's another video on the LEGOWOLRD 2012 which takes place presently in Zwolle, filmed by Anika and Jorim from the MINDSTORMS booth:
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NXT2WIFI Now available
The NXT2WIFI Sensor (could you call it a sensor?) is now available! After a successful Crowdsourcing start, our very own Daniele Benedettelli now has the NXT2WIFI available.What does it do I hear you...
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3000 Posts!
A big milestone for us as we put up our 3000th post!What started as a simple little blog collecting information about the newly released MINDSTORMS NXT system, has grown into an amazing community of...
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Mark Crosbie's Sound Machine
Mark Crosbie from Ireland, known for such great NXT robots like the Queboid and the Streetview Car, has published a new invention of his recently: the Sound Machine.It's a LEGO® drum sequencer that...
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LEGO Great Ball Contraption LEGO World Zwolle 2012
We've shown off a lot of these GBCs (Great Ball Contraption) in the past, but they never cease to amaze me. I love how the very simple idea of moving a LEGO ball from Point A to Point B can result in...
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Motorized NXT gearbox
Aswin has created an interesting NXT gear box that "uses two NXT motors both for driving the output and for shifting gears. As such the full power of the two motors is available for propelling a device...
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LEGO Mold-O-Rama
For those of you who don't know, LEGO is made by taking some coloured plastic pellets, heating them up until they are liquid and then forcing them into specially designed molds. The more complex the...
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LEGO MINDSTORMS Mini Labyrinth
Now this is cool! LEGO MCP Mike Brandls has created a fantastic Mini Labyrinth game. You start the ball in once corner and by moving the joystick, the table rotates. Your challenge is to get the ball...
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RobotC Driver Suite V3.0 Final
Xander has released another version of his popular Driver Suite. This enables people using RobotC to interface to some of the more 'unusual' sensors out there for NXT market. Updates include: Changed...
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Sturdy home-made differential
Sometimes, an ordinary differential just isn't as tough as you need it to be. There are several large, heavy duty differentials on the internet, like this one at TechnicbricksUnfortunatly it uses some...
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WRO (World Robotics Olympiad) 2012
These days the world finals of the WRO, a slightly different robot challenge then FLL are held in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia). Have a look at the current (2012) rules and fields. Also this year a group of...
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LEGO® Gramophone
Anika Vuurzoon has published a new great NXT-powered LEGO® model of her's: the LEGO® Gramophone. By sampling the colors painted on the back of a real LP, the NXT is able to play the song...
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NASA and ESA controlling a LEGO® robot from space
On zdnet.com, there's a nice article on an Disruption-tolerant networking protocol developed by NASA and the ESA for interplanetary communication.The interesting thing for LEGO® robot maniacs is that...
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Customizable Line Following Tracks you can print yourself
Good news for fans of line following robots: You can now easily print custom line tracks for your robots. You build the track from as many 20x20cm tiles as you like. You can choose from standard black...
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The Penguin Men at MoonBots
The Penguin Men, a team of two 9-year-aged boys (plus coach) who made it to the finals of this year's MoonBots competition, hinted me to a link on a nice video they made about their lunar robot...
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Video on the Robotics experts' booth at WRO
MCP bazmarc from Canada (the LEGO® WAll-E man) has published a nice video he made on his trip to the World Robot Olympiad in Kuala Lumpur, mainly on our booth of the Robotics Experts:
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LEGO® MINDSTORMS Curiosity Mars Rover on German TV
The fantastic LEGO® MINDSTORMS Curiosity Mars Rover, built by Will Gorman and Doug Moran, keeps getting prominent: after having visited the NASA, the WRO in Malaysia and the European Robotics Week in...
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