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Saturday, April 7, 2012

MindCuber solves VoidCube

"MindCuber can be seen here solving the Void Cube. It is essentially
a Rubik's Cube with holes through the center of each face, which makes
it slightly more complex to solve. The description on the video itself
says a little more



Monday, March 19, 2012

Cambridge NXT Robots

Scientists at Cambridge University used LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots to automate the creation of artificial bone-like structures. Understandably, they report that NXT robots proved to be much easier to set up and vastly more economical than more high-tech solutions. Other Science Research entities have reported the same bonus this toolkit has provided over the years and its not over by a long-shot. Cambridge's NXT research aid is featured in this video for the 2012 Google Science Fair.
 

NXT Beer Machine

This machine servers 2 kinds of Dutch Beers, cools them down to perfect drinking temperature and open it.

It should also work with soft drinks too

Saturday, March 10, 2012

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


Saturday, February 4, 2012

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
 

Saturday, January 21, 2012

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 

Building Instructions

Great ones in the nxtprograms.com and at http://mindstorms.lego.com/en-us/support/buildinginstructions/8547/Bonus%20Model%201.aspx
For those of you that have HiTechnic sensor there are a few models to build at http://www.hitechnic.com/models
And look at www.nxtprograms.com for stuff for NXT 1.0 and 2.0
Another site but with a little more complicated stuff, http://mynxt.matthiaspaulscholz.eu/index.html might need
some extra pieces
Also another random site: http://robotics.bendettelli.com