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 [...]

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

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. [...]

LEGO Beyond Toys – Bringing NXT to the next level

Over at Eindhoven University of Technology, students of the Master course, LEGO Beyond Toys, came up with various amazing third party products that greatly increases the capabilities of the NXT.

 

Water Pump

GPS Sensor

Wireless Sensor Bridge

Optical Mouse Sensor

Magnetic Grabber

Check out the details @ http://www.bartneck.de/2009/02/16/results-lego-beyond-toys-2/

Gaze Following Robot

Over at thenxtstep,

there is a post about “Gaze following robot”. Basically, a user is able to control where the robot is going by looking at the particular area. A camera is fitted on the robot which displays what the robot sees and the laptop that it is carrying receives the information from the eye tracking software controlled by the user.

 

 cool isn’t it.

Check out thenxtstep for the full [...]

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 [...]