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

NXTCentral.com has changed its look. Although the look has been changed we will still be bringing you the latest and the greatest Information and projects on all things LEGO Mindstorms.

Please bear with us for a few days as we are making sure that everything looks and works ok.

There are also many cool and exciting things happening around here as well.

We now have a links page so you can find all information related to the Mindstorms Community. If there are any links that you think should be added there is a dedicated forum topic where you can suggest links to be added to NXTCentral.com.

To suggest more links please go here

We are going to start having challenges here as well. The first one will be starting soon, So we are encouraging everyone to participate and to get all of your friends to participate as well.

Thanks

The NXTCentral Team

Here is the Newest NXTLOG building challenge:

From NXTLOG:

“These robots are made for walkin’

Alpha Rex can’t be the only biped you’ll ever make, so we’re asking you to create the NXT two legged walker!

Bipeds are said to be the most difficult robot to make, but we know NXTLOGgers are up for the challenge!

All entries to NXTLOG fall under the Terms of Service

Entries must be submitted from Saturday March 1, 2008 - Monday March 31, 2008

All entries must be tagged “NXT200803″

Only LEGO elements may be used.

There is no limit on the amount of LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT sensors, motors, NXT programmable bricks, HiTechnic sensors, or Bluetooth communication. No home brewed sensors allowed.

A programmable LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT brick must be onboard the robot and must control the robot’s actions.

The NXT robot must be a robot that can take still pictures with a camera and you must explain how the robot is a “Biped” robot in your NXTLOG documentation.”

To see the rest Click HERE.

There are already several Bipeds Out there so get creative and come up with soothing awesome!!!

–snowblader13

And the winner of the 5000th NXTLOG entry is: mezzauk and his Creation: Mars Explorer Mk1 with Lander(PF Inc)

His Creation Defiantly deserves #5000 Here is Part of his description go HERE to see more of it.

“This is my first NXT project. It is a simple explorer with a PF enabled Lander. The explorer begins by ordering the lander to lowering both sides then the front so it can exit. I had a medium PF motor spare so quickly stuck a small radar/communication tower at the back - it rotates whilst the left, right and front are deployed.

The explorer has all sensors built in but of course only 4 work depending on which program I choose to use. I am working on 3 programs 1st - will use the light, compass, IR distance sensor and Pf Sensors. 2nd - light, compass, IR and ultrasonic sensors and finally Compass, IR, Ultrasonic and Touch.

My main program uses the light sensor to locate the brightest source using the turntable, record the compass heading and use the heading to navigate to the light source…” More

There were also many others that were very nice as well Go check them out HERE.