LEGO Education Focus Group Survey
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006The folks over at LEGO Education are searching for a few teachers to participate in a product development focus group. Those who are interested are instructed to take a survey.
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Toy Companies Push High-Tech Robotic Toys
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
There is an interesting article in this week’s Time about the push from toy companies this holiday season to wow young consumers with high-tech toys.
With young consumers growing out of toys faster and preferring iPod digital music players and video games, the nation’s toy makers are working harder to come up with more high-tech products, particularly robotic playmates.
Towards the end, the article makes mention of the LEGO Mindstorms NXT and how it will allow LEGO to enter alternative channels that in the past would not normally sell their products.
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Bricksmith 1.5 Now Available
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
Bricksmith 1.5, a Macintosh LEGO modeling application based on the popular LDraw library, is now available.
New Features
* Minifigure Generator
* Move and Rotate panels
* Pressing x,y, and z keys rotates partsBugs Fixed
* Holding option while nudging parts reliably selects the third axis
* Circumvented problem on Intel iMacs preventing selected parts from being displayed
If you don’t have them already, here is the link to the unofficial LDraw parts for the LEGO Mindstorms NXT.
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