Brick Labs

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Ask A LEGO Fan is a new blog by… a LEGO fan. You can find the blog here: http://askalfan.wordpress.com
Anyone can ask a question, and they will try to answer them.  Usually there are links to the source for [...]

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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 to learn [...]

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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 homebrew [...]

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Sneak peak at the cover of a new book coming out soon.  Expected ship-date is November 2008.
The book contains 10 robots that can each be built with a single NXT kit.  Many of the robots have extra challenges for you to accomplish.
All the robots have high resolution digital instructions so you can build the [...]

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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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I’ve bought several kits from Hobbytron. I’ve been very happy with their customer service, and the speed of shipping.
They normally have the LEGO MINDSTORMS Retail Kit on sale for $249 US. Sometimes they offer a special sale for around $234 or so.

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