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BayLUG Meeting, May 27 2006

April 23, 2026May 29, 2006 by Bill Ward

This past Saturday, we had a Bay Area LEGO Users’ Group meeting at the Museum of American Heritage in Palo Alto.

New IR Train Set Reviewed

April 23, 2026May 15, 2006 by Bill Ward

LEGO is coming out with a new line of battery-powered, infrared (IR) remote controlled trains this year, and Larry Pieniazek has written a review. There’s a long discussion thread on LUGNET about it here (use this link to see the full text of all replies on one page).

Lombard Street, San Francisco

April 23, 2026May 14, 2006 by Bill Ward

Along with the TransAmerica Pyramid, this was built for the display that my LEGO club, the Bay Area LEGO Users’ Group, had at the LEGO store in Pleasanton, CA.

Mindstorms NXT Presentation

April 23, 2026May 13, 2006 by Bill Ward

Today we had a special Bay Area LEGO Users’ Group meeting featuring a presentation by Mark Edelman, founder of Playing at Learning, the Northern California FIRST LEGO League affiliate and a member of the Mindstorms Developer Program.

Mindstorms NXT Firmware to be Open Source

April 23, 2026May 2, 2006 by Bill Ward

LEGO has announced that the new version of Mindstorms will have open source firmware! This is very exciting news for anyone who likes to hack on robotics. While people reverse-engineered the original Mindstorms to come up with an alternative firmware called LegOS (which was renamed to BrickOS at the request of LEGO’s legal department), this time around LEGO is supporting software hacking from the get-go.