Brick Labs

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Society of Robots. I just found the website by chance.  They have some great tutorials and tips on how to build "junkbots" (robots made from parts scavenged from junk around your house).
They have a large selection of material choices.  [...]

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John Baichtal of Geekdad blog (from Wired) is writing a book about LEGO. So he’s looking for AFOL (adult fans of LEGO) to help him out.
He wants to include as many adult builders as he can. And he wants the most interesting folks around!
So, head on over to the Brothers Brick. for the details…
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Dan Kressin was challenged by his wife to make Donkey Kong. So he took the challenge.
Some of his criteria were:

rolling barrels (using LEGO barrels if possible)
Donkey Kong throwing the barrels
a barrel-jumping minifig
ladders and ramps that closely resembled the originals

He ended up using minifigs for Mario and the girl.  And then [...]

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Carnegie Mellon University is offering some Teacher Training coursers this summer (actually, this month).  They have both a LEGO MINDSTORMS and a VEX based course.
Summer Teacher Training Courses Use robots to teach Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) concepts.

Unfortunately, the LEGO course is [...]

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Yaya Lu is a primary school student.  Her claim to fame?  She was the only primary school student to compete in the Australian RoboCup Championships (well, in the "Premier Rescue" challenge anyhow).  And she won, beating out four high-school teams.
She’ll be going to China later this year to represent Australia in the World RoboCup [...]

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LEGO Education, a business unit of The LEGO Group, on Monday introduced Lego Education WeDo, a new robotics package designed for classrooms of primary school students ages 7 - 11. It’s coming in January, 2009 — pricing is yet to be announced.
The complete LEGO WeDo package includes:

One motor, one motion sensor and one tilt sensor
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Ever wanted to control some RC Servos with your NXT?  Such as for making your own UAV? How about 10 Servos per sensor port! 
In 2008, Lattebox a hi-tech company located in Taiwan, launch a new kind of NXT device, NXTe. NXTe allows controlling RC servos easily. NXT brick has 4 sensor port inputs to [...]

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Microsoft has released an update to their .NET Micro Framework. This framework allows developers to use Visual Studio to develop for small devices.
New in the 2.5 Update:

Web Services on Devices technology preview. Version 2.5 of the .NET Micro Framework includes a Web Services on Devices implementation compatible with the implementation built into Windows Vista [...]

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