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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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 [...]

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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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