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Lego World 2009 – Netherlands

Over at TheNXTStep,

they mentioned about the LEGO World that is on going. It’s an event where cool LEGO models are featured and the public would get a chance to check out all LEGO stuff!

So what’s featured this year over at the LEGO WORLD??

The model of the actual LEGO warehouse that stores [...]

LEGO Yarn Winder

As the name suggests…..

Check it out at: http://twistedpdx.com/2009/08/27/mr-roboto/

Asimo Enhanced!

Ever heard of a Humanoid Robot avoiding obstacles??? It’s TRUE!
Absolutely true with the help of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the famous Honda Asimo.

Read the full article at http://www.plasticpals.com/?p=11657

Dare to Dream Different?

Recently,

Paul Tingey from New Zealand submitted his video entry for the Microsoft DARE TO DREAM DIFFERENT Challenge.

In this competition, participants are required to create a working prototype of the concept, utilizing a development kit from Microsoft.

Technical Specifications about the Development Kit:

Microsoft – DTDDC Dev Kit (137.1 KiB, 361 hits)

Video Explanation of [...]

Roboku (Sudoku) Anybody?

Over at TheNXTStep,

they featured a Sodoku Solver by Hans Andersson!

Check out the Full post at TheNXTStep now!

About the LEGO Master:

I’m Hans Andersson.
I live in the south of Sweden with my lovely wife and children. In my professional life I work with programming and development of business software (not with anything as cool as robots).

A while [...]

Money Counter

Check out this cool money counter!

To find out more, check out the post at http://thenxtstep.blogspot.com/2009/08/money-counter.html

Google Lunar X Prize – 1st Robot

Over at TheNXTStep,

their blog contributors, Bluetoothkiwi came up with his very first Moonbot challenge robot design.

Check out the post at www.THENXTSTEP.blogspot.com for more information.

Drop us an email if you came up with a design for the Moonbot chalenge.

Google Lunar X Prize

ABOUT THE GOOGLE LUNAR X PRIZE

The $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE is an unprecedented international competition that challenges and inspires engineers and entrepreneurs from around the world to develop low-cost methods of robotic space exploration. The $30 million prize purse [...]

NXTHID – Playing a virtual Keyboard

Together with Mindsensor.com, we came up with the NXT HID!

From Mindsensors.com:

Using this device you can send HID input events (such as keyboard key presses) to host computer. These events can be received by any program that can run on your PC. This device has creative uses in science experiments, data acquisition and processing, etc. [...]