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FLL-Freak Video Tutorials

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

Veteran FIRST LEGO League coach Skye Sweeney has put together quite a few video tutorials covering the art of solving FLL missions with the NXT. The site also provides a comprehensive set of links to other sites with helpful NXT information. As an added bonus, you can sign up to be notified whenever new information is available on the page. Skye aims to make a new tutorial per week, so stay tuned!

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NXT-a-Sketch

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

Here’s a cool video of Kevin turning his $250 LEGO Mindstorms NXT into a $20 (or less!?) etch-a-sketch. He even included the shaking erase maneuver! Now let’s see what George Vlosich III can do with this baby!

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Easter Egg Plotter

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

The Easter Egg Plotter by Andreas Dreier is probably one of the coolest NXT robots I’ve seen. Here’s a video (5mb) of the robot in action as it mimics the old school vector graphics printing devices. Unfortunately, only the different photo angles and captions are available to tell us about this creation. It is clear, however, that one motor rotates the spool while the other two motors control the X and Y positions of the pen. I would love to see the source code!

Andreas is also responsible for creating nxtRICredit - a tool enabling the creation of graphics for display on the NXT LCD.

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