Brick Labs

Squishy Circuits – These are pretty slick… I’m thinking on making some for my kids to play with. Corkscrew drive propels robot across tough terrain – Slow, but interesting DARPA Concludes Nano Air Vehicle Program – Watch the video.  ‘nuff said. Robotic seagull takes flight in Europe – Watch the video.  This blows away the [...]

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Simpfan (from the NXT Step forums) has come up with a system that seems to work quite well.  Damien blogged about it on The NXT Step. How do you store your LEGO parts?

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What more can I say… watch it. Gives you a little bit of insight on the Watson project, and what it accomplished. For more details… IBM Watson. Some excellent videos explaining more of the processes behind Watson, troubles it had, etc. Many of those videos are excellent. However, this one here (How Watson Works), really [...]

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I recently downloaded the 30 day trial of RobotC.  I’m a programmer by trade (mostly in the .NET languages) and the NXT-G graphical interface has always bugged me.  For me, it’s very foreign, since I’m used to a text based programming language. My other choice that I looked at was leJOS.  But I’m not much [...]

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OK. It’s Christmas time… and that means… time for making a list right? I have two Christmas requests this year. 1) An Amazon Kindle DX. 2) Amazon Gift Certificates. Any amount… $5 is great… 3) A LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0 (8547) (ok, so I can’t count) So… what’s on YOUR wishlist?

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As most of you know, I wrote one of the chapters in the One Kit Wonders book.  As such, there are certain terms that have to be used when writing about LEGO. Brick Bender has put together a short version of some writing styles.  Here is a couple quotes, and then the link to the [...]

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Trossen Robotics held a Tutorial Contest.  The winners got some great robotics prizes.  But they aren’t the only ones who win.  We are. Why?  Because they had to create quality tutorials in order to qualify for the prizes.  And you and I get to read and use those tutorials. You can see the projects and [...]

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