NBC Update
Thursday, August 17th, 2006No, not that NBC. Version 1.0.1.b5 beta of Next Byte Codes was released today with improved preprocessor support.
Go grab it for Windows, Mac, or, as previously reported, Linux.
And if you haven’t tried them already, have fun with the sample programs.
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NIWeek ‘06 - Keynote Presentations
Thursday, August 17th, 2006
National Instruments has uploaded quite a few videos of the keynote presentations from last week’s NIWeek 2006. Enjoy.
NXTasy.org’s Dick Swan attended the conference and published a great article about his trip. If you missed it, be sure to check it out!
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Meet the Robots
Thursday, August 17th, 2006The official LEGO Mindstorms NXT overview page has been updated with a ‘Meet the Robots’ section. The new content features the out-of-box robots and provides interactive descriptions, hardware highlights and code explanations.
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Bot Buddies
Thursday, August 17th, 2006
An article over at New Scientist digs into research in Sweden to develop robots that can “remotely tap into each other’s sensors and computers in order to perform tricky tasks”. Örebro University’s Robert Lundh says his robots do not use hard-coded cooperative behavior. Rather, he tells New Scientist, the robots “plan for themselves how to draw on their capabilities and those of others.”
In one experiment, two robots were tasked to carry a fixed length of wood on their heads. Relaying information about the other’s speed and direction allowed them to keep the wood beam balanced. Another experiment demonstrated how two robots with limited vision could help each other through a doorway.
The article is a good read, so check it out. No mention of the LEGO Mindstorms NXT, but with multiple sets, similar experiments are certainly possible.
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