New Compass Sensor from Dexter Industries

Dexter Industries have come out with another sensor for the NXT, this time a compass.

A compass is an excellent way of figuring out which way your robot is pointing.  Especially handy for things like navigating around or playing a game of robot soccer!

This particular one can measure along 3 axis (so I guess that means heading as well as tilt?)

As with all compass sensors, you need to be very careful around other magnetic fields (power cables, motors etc) but according to the manual, you can do some calibration to reduce any offset from true north.

At $29, it's one of the cheaper sensors available for the NXT :)

More details including code samples for NXT-G, RobotC and Labview can be found here.

http://dexterindustries.com/dCompass.html 

Awesome Robot hand

Find out more at http://maxshepherd.net/

Smallest NXT Biped in the world?

Micheal has made a entry for the Snapshots contest at NXTLog and won
It is called my very first biped

Lego ISS in Space

Furukawa Satoshi, an astronaut from Japan on board of the ISS (International Space Station) built a Lego ISS there

Legoworld

I have found some more videos on Legoworld

Swarmbots

Here is a non-NXT video on a 4 year project by multiple universities in Europe.
It might give you some ideas though swarm NXT is quite a minor role

 

Huge Pneumatic Robot Arm

This Pneumatic Robot arm manages to lift a filled glass cup to a different location by following a black line.
It is composed of:
7 Motors (NXT and Power Functions)
1 NXT
1 RCX
 Pneumatic Gripper 

NXT biped from China

Here's a good biped robot built by the Team of the Chinese blog cmnxt.com

NXT High Noon Duel

A simple and fun game. You can play to test your reflexes or play against a friend.

Cool robots from Festo HQ

These are robots made by the German Company Festo
And yes, they are real



Not NXT but it may give inspiration to build something