Brick Labs

I never played beyond the Beta. While I did play, it was fun… sad to see that they just couldn’t make it viable (aka, pay for itself). LEGO Universe to close in 2012 Online game will close on January 31, 2012. The LEGO Group’s digital offerings will continue to develop over the coming years. November [...]

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For the 2 (or maybe 3) of you who do visit my site, and aren’t familiar with The NXT Step… you’ve been missing out on an excellent blog related to the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT kits and projects. They recently posted a bit of news… I’ll let you go read it for yourself. Good luck Jim!

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Maine Robotics does Robot Camps throughout the summer, for students. They just published their 2011 Camp Calendar. If you live in Maine, this is a great chance to attend one of the camps, and learn a lot about the LEGO Mindstorms kits, how to build robots, program robots, and solve various challenges. Campers design, build [...]

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Ok… so I’m a .NET junkie.  I’ve always been a big fan of Microsoft programming languages (hey, it’s how I make my living… and they work). When I heard about the Microsoft .NET Micro Framework… I thought “Great… I can now program my NXT in .NET”. All the specs looked good… except for one.  Not [...]

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Some neat bits about RobotC 1) Convert Ringtones to RobotC code http://tinkernology.blogspot.com/2010/07/ringtone-converter-for-robotc.html 2) Using a temperature sensor… has some great tips http://tinkernology.blogspot.com/2010/07/ringtone-converter-for-robotc.html 3) Arduino Alternative? http://mightor.wordpress.com/2010/06/24/the-new-arduino-alternative/

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At TEDxNASA, Dennis Hong introduces seven award-winnning, all-terrain robots — like the humanoid, soccer-playing DARwIn and the cliff-gripping CLIMBeR — all built by his team at RoMeLa, Virginia Tech. Watch to the end to hear the five creative secrets to his lab’s incredible technical success. Cool video… some great intro’s to some of these robots… [...]

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v1.4 of the RobotC Driver Suite has been released. You can download it here: RobotC Driver Suite v1.4 Details of the release are found here at Xanders Blog. I’m in the processing of trying it out, and working my way through some RobotC samples. Especially for using the HiTechnic Experimenters board.

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