Are You a Hardcore LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT User? Do you want to have a seat in our closed web forum, the MINDSTORMS Community Partners, where we involve you in our development and tests of new ideas, concepts, prototypes, products and discuss various issues around our SW, HW, FW and wetware…? Then send an application via [...]
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Applications for MINDSTORMS Community Partners – MCP4
June 29th, 2009 · No Comments · News
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Pleo Faces Extinction
May 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment · News
Well, it’s happened. Ugobe filed for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy a few weeks ago. Ugobe was the maker of the Pleo robotic dinosaur. Here is a Google search about the Pleo bankruptcy if you want more details. From what I’ve read, the rights to Pleo will be sold. It’s possible someone will purchase and keep producing [...]
LEGO Survey for AFOL and TFOLs
April 30th, 2009 · No Comments · News
Remember December survey? LEGO asks as to take similar one now and every upcoming quarter. Here’s the message from Steve Witt: As Adult or Teenage Fans of LEGO, you bring an important perspective to the LEGO Group. We respect your creativity and passion for the LEGO brand. In December 2008, we did an online survey [...]
Robot Roundup – April 29 Edition
April 29th, 2009 · No Comments · News
Here is a roundup of some of the robots I’ve stumbled across recently. A-Pod It’s a hexapod robot. Extremely agile walking robot. Looks like a large ant. Built with some custom parts and parts from Trossen Robotics. This thing is amazing! A-Pod is an ant inspired hexapod robot with a 2 DOF abdomen (tail), a [...]
Tags:animal robots·industry robots
Amazon has a sale on the LEGO Mindstorms NXT kit $203 US
April 9th, 2009 · No Comments · News
Amazon has a sale right now on the NXT kit. And, it qualifies for the Free Super Saver Shipping, so you only pay the $203.62 price. This is one of the cheapest prices I’ve seen for the NXT kit. And the free shipping… hard to beat. This would be a great time to buy the [...]
Tags:Amazon·Buy NXT·One-Kit Wonders
NXT for $199 from Amazon
December 15th, 2008 · No Comments · News
I’m not sure how long this deal will last, so you may want to buy soon. Amazon currently has the NXT for $199 USD. That beats the $289 I saw it for last week in the local Toys R Us. :P If you want it for Christmas, you’ll have to pay the extra shipping costs. [...]
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LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT One-Kit Wonders–New from No Starch Press
November 16th, 2008 · No Comments · News
LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT One-Kit Wonders–New from No Starch Press: How to Build Innovative Robots with Just One NXT Kit San Francisco, CA, November 12, 2008—When the creative minds behind The NXT STEP blog co-authored The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Idea Book (No Starch Press) in the fall of 2007, they hoped to revolutionize the world of [...]
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