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Archive for August 3rd, 2006

New Contributor - Dick Swan

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

We are extremely proud to welcome Dick Swan as a contributor to nxtasy.org.  With quite a few contributions to the LEGO Mindstorms RCX community, Dick will surely bring us great things for the NXT!

Mindstorms NXT Driver v1.02

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

Thanks to Brian Davis for mentioning that LEGO is now offering an updated driver for the Mindstorms NXT.

“This software updates the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT driver and addresses an issue that prevents the firmware from being downloaded to the NXT on some occasions.”

PC’s 7.12MB vs. Mac’s 351KB
Heheheh..

Mindsensors.com NRLink

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

NRLink

Mindsensors.com has provided us with information on their new NRLink product for the LEGO Mindstorms NXT:

“News for those who have an RCX and looking forward to use it with NXT… mindsensors.com will be introducing a communication adapter by end of this month. This communication adapter, NRLink, enables 2 way communication between RCX and NXT. NRLink connects to NXT on a sensor port, and communicates with RCX via Infrared.

Your RCX robot can be a separate mobile robot, and communicating to NXT robot via infrared. Using NRLink, you can download programs to RCX as well as receive sensor events from RCX; in short, you can do all the tasks IR Tower can do.

NRLink can be mounted on NXT robot using Technic beams and it supports NBC and RobotC programming environments.”

Vernier LEGO Mindstorms NXT Projects

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

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The folks over at Vernier Software & Technology have posted several LEGO Mindstorms NXT robots projects that they have integrated with a few of their sensors.  The one shown above uses a tilt sensor to keep the beam level as weights are added and removed. Videos included.