Today, LEGO has announce a new Android App for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT.
Category: Robotics
LEGO Mindstorms Robotics
Amazing Great Ball Contraption video
This is really a work of art – not just for the clever LEGO creations, but maybe even more so for the filmmaking. The modern classical music accompanies the images very well. By taking a series of close-up video shots of various parts of the contraption, each one well composed and from an interesting angle, our interest is maintained throughout. Exceedingly well-done!
Tilted Twister – Mindstorms NXT Robot Solves Rubik’s Cube
I just came across Tilted Twister while reading Mike Walsh’s LEGO Blog (link removed, as apparently his site has been compromised). It’s a Mindstorms robot that can solve the Rubik’s Cube!
3D LEGO Chocolate Printer
Hey, your chocolate got on my LEGO! Hey, your LEGO got in my chocolate! Two great tastes that taste great together.
Mindstorms NXT Presentation
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
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.
LEGO is Not a Crime!
Except in Germany, that is. It seems that a LEGO fan was recently arrested for playing with LEGO Mindstorms on a train. Thanks to my wife Holly for pointing this out.
Hot Mindstorms NXT News from MacWorld
At MacWorld I was talking to the LEGO Education (Dacta) guy there and he told me some interesting things about Mindstorms NXT that I hadn’t heard anywhere else.
Mindstorms strikes again
A little over a week ago I finally got around to ordering a LEGO Mindstorms set for the first time. I’ve been a LEGO fan for years but never got around to trying Mindstorms, LEGO’s robotics kit that has been around since 1998. One big reason was that I usually buy LEGO in increments of $10-100 at a time, not the $200 that the Mindstorms Robotics Invention System would have cost. When I did get around to buying it, I chose the educational version from LEGO Education (aka Pitsco aka Dacta). I got the ROBO Technology Set for $159 which should arrive in a few days.