“NI Week” Trip Report

Friday, August 11th, 2006

NI Week is National Instruments annual sales conference held in Austin, TX. There was a very strong LEGO and Mindstorms flavor at this year’s conference with several significant Mindstorms announcements. There was great attendance by many influential people in the Mindstorms community.

The contents of this post include not only the “formal” NI Week activities but also describe advanced Mindstorms “sensor” technologies that I was quietly demonstrating at NI week — including  interfaces to a wireless SONY Playstation Controller and (an almost complete) video camera connected to the NXT high speed sensor port.

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