Archive for May, 2008

Time is up

May 31st, 2008 by Airkraft

Just a quickie to tell you that the time is up for submitting your entries to the first ever NXTCentral challenge!

Im sure Snowblader13 will expand on this in great detail soon

oh, and i thought i will tell you,

Its my birthday

Looking forward to the new lego!

-Airkraft

Challenge #1 Deadline is coming up.

May 22nd, 2008 by snowblader13

Well it has been nearly 2 months since we first unveiled challenge #1. There may still be time for thoes of you that have yet to start on it. Go to the forum to see all of the rule for the competition. Be sure to read the Questions and Answers, as some of the rules have been changed or Cleared up!

Click here to go to the forum!

The deadline for challenge #1 is on May 31st, That means that all entries must be sent in following all of the rules by that date! So far no entries have been submitted! Time is running out so get those bots done and sent in!

Have fun and get those entries in!!!

Back from Maker Faire!

May 10th, 2008 by NXTMonger

I’m back from the Maker Faire! It was really fun, and I hope I can make it next year.
Anyways, I took some photos and movie clips there, and iMovie’d together a slideshow/video. It’s mostly about the LEGO exhibit, but there is a bit of other stuff too.
Note: This does not cover the whole Maker Faire! There is way, way more than this. But most of the time I was looking at stuff and forgetting to take pictures, so this is what I have.

Worlds Tallest Lego Tower!!

May 8th, 2008 by snowblader13

Now this is not directly related to Mindstorms, but way too cool to share with all.

Once again, the record for the world’s largest Lego tower has fallen. Last year, the Lego bricks towered 96 feet over Toronto. A new LEGO tower in the UK has taken over the title of “world’s tallest”. Constructed using over 500,000 bricks, it towers 100-feet above LEGOLAND Windsor. Hitting the 100 foot mark is definitely a fitting way to celebrate the 50th anniversary.

LEGO.com MINDSTORMS NXTLOG MINDSTORMS NXT NXT Building Challenge

May 2nd, 2008 by snowblader13

NXT NXT…? Are you seeing double? Yes! We are presenting a doubly fun building challenge where you create a robot that uses 2 NXT bricks! We are also giving you double the amount of time to enter this challenge (projects must be entered by June 30, 2008).

The 2 NXT’s can be onboard the robot or the 2 NXT’s can be separate (for example if 1 NXT is used as a remote controller for the 2nd NXT). The NXT’s must communicate with each other.

Don’t have 2 NXT’s? Why not enter the challenge with a friend!