Brick Labs

We all hear about the big LEGO or Robotics events, like the National FLL challenge in Atlanta. But what about local stuff?  Events you can go spend a day and half a tank of gas to visit? There is a robotics group in Maine.  It is called: Maine Robotics.  It’s a non-profit organization run by [...]

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UPDATE: Toys R Us is having a new sale (same link as before, but new pricing).  You can Buy 1, Get 2nd Half Price.  So, it works out to $217 for each Mindstorms kit.  Not quite as good as their original sale, but still cheaper than most places.  (Reminder courtesy of Fay Rhodes at The [...]

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Jens Friedrich has posted detailed steps on how to connect the Wii Nunchuk to your NXT.  He uses a couple of resistors, a diode, a spliced NXT cable and the Lego Accelerometer Sensor from HiTechnic. Here is a YouTube video of the Nunchuk in action… And the full forum writeup is here: solved: direct connect [...]

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I’m the proud new owner of Jack.  Jack is an Omnibot 2000.  He was left on my doorstep in a basket, with a spare change of batteries.  I don’t know who his parents are, so I’ve adopted him. Unfortunately, Jack has one problem.  He is missing his remote.  This means, I can’t control Jack’s behavior. [...]

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I recently found Jing (this morning as a matter of fact).  It’s a great tool (from what I’ve used so far) for recording images (screen captures / screenshots) and screen casting (videos of your computer screen). This would be a great way to make simple tutorials for NXT-G, LDraw, MLCad, RobotC, LDD or anything else [...]

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  Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any photographs of LEGO Fireworks.  So there’s a challenge for you! Oh, and for those of you who do fireworks, why not a LEGO NXT Robot to safely light them for you?

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I was cleaning up some boxes yesterday in my office, and I found the original registration card for the LEGO Mindstorms RCX units (v 1.0 I think).  This RCX list is copyright LEGO. Here is what it says: Top 5 Things NOT To Do With Your RCX 5. Don’t give your RCX your credit card [...]

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