LEGO Education 2010 Catalog

So Christmas is coming and 2010 is just 20 odd days away and here comes the LEGO Education 2010 catalog with a whole truckloads of new products coming our way!

Some cool products that we must look out for:

1) LEGO Energy Meter kit featuring 3 main renewable energy – namely Wind, Sun and Hydro

This [...]

Mindstorm website turns 2.0 too!

The Mindstorms team has transformed their official website with the NXT 2.0 theme!

In the portal, you will be able to find our more about the latest NXT 2.0 kit and even try out add-on models designed by enthusiasts from all over the world! (Guess what… Even the building instructions are available)

Don’t forget to [...]

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 [...]

LEGO Conference 2009

The LEGO Conference will be held in Singapore for the 3rd consecutive year on 16 March 2009, Monday @ The Science Centre.

Prof. Chris Rogers will be taking the advanced workshop which is highly recommended by RoboAcademy.

For more information, check out http://legoconference.com/

Wii Nunchuck & NXT

Over at NXTASY.org,

Jens Friedrich shared with the community on how we can interface the Wii Nunchuck with the NXT. However, this projects requires slight modification to the Wii Nunchuck and he has it well documented.

Wii Nunchuck in action:.

Here are the links for this wonderful project:

a) Wii Nunchuck & NXT project
b) About the Wii Nunchuck
c) Wii Nunchuck programming [...]

Lego – WeDo

 

TechnicBRICKs has posted more information about Lego WeDo.

LEGO Education (The LEGO Group’s educational division) announced WeDo, a new product that redefines classroom robotics as they said.
The new product is expect to become available at first in US and Brazil beginning January 2009, and later at different regions.

WeDo is targeted for elementary [...]

LEGO(R) Education WeDo(TM)

 
LEGO(R) Education WeDo(TM) Unveiled at 2008
National Educational Computing Conference

 

Company introduces first robotics product to work with OLPC XO, Intel Classmate or any desktop and laptop Mac/PC SAN ANTONIO, June 30

 

Developed to cover a broad range of curriculum areas, WeDo sample topics
include Language and Literacy: narrative and journalistic [...]