NXT Mobile Application Now Available!
Monday, November 6th, 2006
A few weeks ago, nxtasy.org reported that a new download would be surfacing soon from the LEGO site for interfacing your mobile device with the Mindstorms NXT. Well, the time has come! The NXT Mobile Application is now here!
Here’s a brief summary of basic operation:
Remote Control
This enables you to control two motors on the NXT. Use the joystick/command wheel on your phone to go forward, backwards, stop – or you can choose to control one motor at the time. If your NXT model have wheels (like the Tribot) it will be much like a remote controlled car.Program Control
This mode enables you to control any of the programs on your NXT. First select the program you want to control and then you can send command messages to your NXT by pressing the numeric keys on your phone. What the NXT does when you press the keys depends entirely on your program.Collected Data
If the NXT can make your phone take photos, this is where you can find them. Have you made a program that sends data to your phone, this is where you can find it as well, for instance be readings from the sensors.
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Razix’s NXT Director Updated
Monday, November 6th, 2006
NXT Director, a remote control application for Palm OS mobile devices, has been recently updated with new features.
Per Razix:
More functions added. Telemetry of sound, light and touch sensors now online. More to come when I have some time. This addition ate up my whole weekend!
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NXT in TIME
Monday, November 6th, 2006
The LEGO Mindstorms NXT makes it to TIME Magazine this week in a brief review — probably due to its popularity this holiday season.
I’ll never forget that Christmas morning in 1984 when I got the mother of all Lego sets, the medieval castle, and how happy I was snapping the colored pieces together to build it higher and higher. So it was a special treat for me to open up the latest iteration of the Lego franchise, a sophisticated system of sensors, motors and computer controllers called Lego Mindstorms NXT.
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BrickFest PDX 2007
Monday, November 6th, 2006
A few years ago, the first BrickFest outside of the Washington, D.C. area was held in Portland, OR. Due to popular demand, it looks like another is in the works to be held March 30 - April 1!
In the spirit of the positive feedback we have received we are thinking of this event sort of like a “reunion”; we feel that the family or class reunion best captures the hullabaloo of last time, that we would like to extend to all AFOLs! In addition to several classrooms for sessions at the Oregon Convention Center we have 30,000 square feet of exhibit hall, so there is plenty of SPACE for exhibits and other activities.
Keep your eyes open for more information about registration and public day.
Miss out on this year’s BrickFest? See some of nxtasy.org’s coverage and videos!
[via BrickFest]
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