MobileMag NXT Review: “You apparently need a degree..”

Monday, July 31st, 2006

Mobile Magazine’s Ryan Maule has posted a review of the LEGO Mindstorms NXT. He starts off giving kudos to LEGO for allowing select folks to participate in the development of the kit. The review goes a bit south, however, when he gets to building original creations and working with the NXT-G IDE. His suggestion? A Masters and/or PhD in robotics and software engineering.

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NXTasy Challenge No. 1 Is Under Way!

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

Hello NXT fans!

NXTasy invites you to compete in the first community NXT challenge. The goal is simple!  Got an NXT set? Take the blue plastic ball and make a bot that throws it as far as possible! That’s easy? Not so fast! Only LEGO parts are allowed (see rules for details)….

We have a prizes for you, too! Winner gets a brand new Digital Compass Sensor courtesy of HiTechnic Products. Additionally, the top 5 participants will receive a 25% discount coupon (valid for 3 months) for their next purchase at mindsensors.com.

Competition deadline is December 1st, 2006. Rules, regulation and participants’ information can be found here.

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Tutorial: Bluetooth Linux Starter

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

Jürgen Stuber has a cool little tutorial showing how to receive a bluetooth data transmission from an NXT brick to a Linux box.  It has been added to our repository.

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NBC Beta 0.1.4 b4 for Linux

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

On Wednesday, John Hansen released a binary of the Next Byte Codes (NBC) command line compiler that is capable of running on 32-bit Intel Linux platforms. With versions also available on Windows and Mac, NBC allows users to program the LEGO Mindstorms NXT brick using textual code with assembly language syntax.

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