NXT Lego Plane

Monday, May 7th, 2007

Here’s a cool project published by our forums reader andy. It’s a plane made from Lego, with over 1 meter wing span. Check this post for details.

Nice work andy!

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Guide robot for visually impaired individuals

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

Our forums reader Randy describes in our forums this robot, made as a design project in his school. It uses 3 Devantech SRF02 ultrasonic sensors to detect obstacles, and controlled by a Wiimote remote. When it detects an obstacle it provides a vibrational feedback to the user on the Wiimote. Read more here.

Nice work Randy!

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Microsoft Robotics Studio 1.5 (CTP May 2007)

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

A new (Community Technical Preview) version of Microsoft Robotics Studio was released from microsoft. A short description from the website:

“The Microsoft® Robotics Studio is a Windows-based environment for academic, hobbyist and commercial developers to easily create robotics applications across a wide variety of hardware. This installation package installs the Microsoft Robotics Studio along with samples and tutorials.”

You can download it here.

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