Posting

Hello all,
I will now be only posting over the weekend so it will only be updated on Sat. or Sun.
Thanks!
Enjoy

GPS Thing

Jim Kelly has teamed up with Dexter Industries to produce a new book aimed at the using the dGPS sensor.

Satellite GPS systems have become more and more integrated in the way we live.  As our world becomes increasingly dependent on the Global Positioning System, it was obvious to us that the next generation of scientists and engineers will need to know how to use it and what its limitations are.     This workbook was written to bring to life the GPS system that we often take for granted, and help students understand it, explore it, and find new ways to use it.   

Thermal sensor

Having spent most of yesterday hacking and optimizing the firmware for the new Dexter Industries Thermal IR Sensor, Xander thought he would go ahead and make something fun with it today.
he built a pan and tilt rig for the sensor with a great deal of gearing down to allow me to take a lot of measurements as the rig moved around. Initially he had it set for about 40×40 measurements but those didn’t look that great and he wanted a bit more. He reprogrammed it and made it spit out data at a resolution of about 90×80.

He gets some great looking images of both a cold bottle and a hot flame.

From what I hear, he's working on increasing the resolution and range that the sensor can output.

LEGO StarWars Lambda Class-T 4a #10212 NXTfied!

This is a vid of the lego set NXTfied!

Storing Lego mindstorms

Hi, these are some examples of how to store your lego pieces. Pictures shows how the labels are on the storage case, and some are opened to show how they works and what's inside them. I hope some of the other people will use this, because it are very easy to get the pieces you want when you build. I have use this system for my other Lego pieces to, but have only taken photos of the NXT parts. Some few NXT parts like cabels, and the big balls you get in NXT 1, are in a bigger box, but haven't pictured it, because it are only one label. (To get the parts I have used a combination of: LDD, MLcad and LeoCad, and printed out from word)

Storing LEGO MINDSTORMS #2

This is  the T-BOXX from Sortimo.





What's useful about these boxes, is that you can choose how you organize the seperate bins within the box.





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Segaway

What do you do when you're in the MINDSTORMS booth at the FLL finals with plenty of robots around? Well, it might lead to some strange combinations. At some point Laurens got the idea to combine a NXT Segway with omniwheels so that it could move sideways. In theory, this shouldn't have any influence on the robot's balance. See the practical experiment Xander and Laurens did below.




Laurens decided to try to see what happens when a segaway is on a moving platform.

So this is the result:

Cool Car

Hi there,
I found some model of a car on youtube.
It's pretty cool!!!

Bonus Models

Hi all,
I know this is quite late but some of you out there at one point or another can't think of anything to build. www.nxtprograms.com has no new updates, the stuff on the web is too simple or too hard.
Well, following this post there will be several posts for each on the Lego bonus models.

Play well!

FLL OEC 2011: Delft (NL)

Today the first of the 500 guest are arriving in the Netherlands to participate on Friday 3 and Saturday 4 June at the FLL Open European Championships in Delft (the Netherlands).
With a LEGO MINDSTORMS Team we will be showing of some great models and always there for tips and tricks.

Join the FLL OEC Facebook group to share your news and videos, and to chat with other teams!

See this link for the official pages.
Here you can find the complete program.

Google Zeitgeist, London

Tuesday 16 May, Jorgen Vig Knudstrop (CEO and President, LEGO) talked about Game-Changing entertainment at the Google Zeitgeist 2011 event.
Jorgen refers to us the fans that make the brand.


full movie (as shown on Jorgen's phone).



We helped LEGO to show several interesting LEGO MINDSTORMS models, sumobot (by LEGO)

Soccerbots with helmets (by NeXTStorms)


Streetview car (by Mark)


C5 (by university students Kenneth Madsen and Lasse Lauesen).


It was nice to see that many CEO's loved to play with the soccerbots.