List of NXT-G blocks
Saturday, April 14th, 2007I’ve created a dedicated page in NXTasy.org for a table of all available NXT-G blocks. The page can be accessed directly here or via a link in the Programming/NXT-G category description.
Guy Ziv
NXTasy.org
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The Future of NXTasy Challenges
Thursday, November 16th, 2006With the coming deadline of our first NXTasy challenge (December 1st, if anyone has forgotten), we would like to hear your opinions regarding the future of these challenges. We had very little participation so far (if anyone is waiting ’til the last day - don’t wait! You may still be surprised by others who do the same and have no time to improve your robots), which raises the question if we should go on with the second NXTasy challenge (which was meant to be a programming-only challenge using Tribot). I thank again HiTechnic for contributing a Compass sensor for the winner, and mindsensors.com who promised 5 discount coupons for the top 5.
Any comment/suggestion/remark will be welcome as comments to this post or by email to challenge@nxtasy.org
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News You Can Use
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006The LEGO Mindstorms NXT community is growing! It’s wonderful to see new sites with great content popping up left and right.
We work hard to dig up stories that we think you’ll enjoy. See something you like on nxtasy.org? Feel free to post it on your own blog or website. We are all for viral news as it is an excellent way to spread the word on the latest and greatest thing to hit our community. All we ask is that you make sure you link to our original post.
If you’re new to blogging and unsure of how to format it, here are a few ways to do it:
- Include the link in the body of your post:
Just saw this great robot on nxtasy.org!
- Or just add a line at the end:
[Via nxtasy.org]
Thanks! And keep up the good work!
Rachel
nxtasy.org Editor
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Two more contributors!
Friday, October 13th, 2006NXTasy.org is pleased to announce the addition of two more contributors!
MDP member, John Hansen, has been instrumental in providing great development tools to the RCX and NXT community. We welcome the new NXT content he aims to share about NBC, BricxCC, NQC, NXT-G, and more!
Sivan Toledo is an associate professor in computer science and conducts research in the area of high-performance scientific computing. He has previously published a few NXT articles (here and here) and we hope NXTasy.org provides him with an additional outlet to share his work with the community.
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Please Excuse the Dust
Thursday, October 12th, 2006
Good news! We’re growing! Bad news. We’re growing. Okay, well, it’s not entirely bad news. It just means we might be a little rough around the edges while I move nxtasy.org to bigger servers in the next few days to handle the increased traffic. That said, please excuse the dust. =)
I’m also taking this time to enhance a few areas on our site. Some will be major like upgrading the engines behind our blog and forums. Others will be minor and might go unnoticed like the nice link directory that I’ve restructured on our sidebar.
Did you enjoy the first NXTasy Challenge? I understand the competition is pretty tough, but no worries, there’s still plenty of time left. Guy has some great ideas for a new challenge in the very near future. This time, the focus will be on programming. We’ll put our heads together to come up with cool prizes.
Again, we welcome Dave Astolfo to our contribution team. He and I hit it off really well at BrickFest and I can’t wait to see what he has in store for all of us. Word is that it’s REALLY awesome. We’re always looking for helping hands, so don’t hesitate to shoot an email our way.
Overall, I think we’ll be able to bring you even better content in the future, so stay tuned! Thanks again for all the support!
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NXTasy.org Welcomes Dave Astolfo!
Thursday, October 12th, 2006
NXTasy.org proudly welcomes MDP member Dave Astolfo to our contribution team! With great builds like DominoBotNXT and TiltBot (shown), Dave is excited to share more of his robots and many wonderful tips and tricks with our readers.
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The NXTasy Challenge sets a new High Score!
Saturday, October 7th, 2006Less than 8 weeks till our first challenge deadline, and we received a new contribution setting the high score at 153 inches! I must admit, I thought it was a lost fight when the 122 inches score was reached, but I’m happy to be surprised once again by the creativity of NXTasy.org readers.
Just to remind you - the challenge is throwing the NXT set blue ball (red balls also count…) the farthest, without using elastic parts pneumatics and alike (exact rules are here, Q&A here). The deadline is December 1st. The winning bot will be awarded a new Digital Compass sensor courtesy of HiTechnic, and the best five throwers will be awarded a 25% discount coupon from mindsensors.com.
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The Tourist — A mindsensors.com PSP-Nx Review
Saturday, September 23rd, 2006
Thanks goes to the kind folks at mindsensors.com for sending me their new PSP-Nx Sony PlayStation 2 controller interface for the LEGO Mindstorms NXT. I wanted to give the interface a spin and post a review, so I put together a simple robotic vehicle that I affectionately call the Tourist (click here for hi-res). Is the PSP-Nx a stud or dud? See the full review after the jump to find out!
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Hello World!
Thursday, August 24th, 2006
nxtasy.org says hello to all our readers across the globe!
Can you spot your location’s dot? For a closer look at the top 500 reader locations across each part of the world, click on either the thumbnail above or the following links:
North America
Europe
Asia
Australia
South America
Thank you for your support and we hope to continue providing a rich source of news and knowledge for all things LEGO Mindstorms NXT!
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New Repository Category - Technic
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006A new category has been added to our repository - \Projects\Technic
This new repository category will hold all contributed LEGO Technic sub-assemblies with full building instructions. Found a cool technical solution you wish to share with the community? Here’s the place to put it! All items should contain building instructions (or otherwise be sufficiently detailed to let you build the sub-assembly yourself).
For starters, we thank Bryan Bonahoom for sharing with us the construction details of the differential transmission used in his CAS steerable vehicle. It is made from only the standard LEGO Mindstorms NXT set parts.
We encourage you all to send us your Technic inventions by sending an email to repository@nxtasy.org. Take a look in our other repository categories, as well. We’re sure you’ll find some great stuff there already!
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1000+ Posts in NXTasy Forums!
Monday, August 14th, 2006
The nxtasy.org team would like to thank all of our readers for visiting our site and helping it become a great LEGO Mindstorms NXT user community! We’ve reached over 1000 posts in our forums in only a month and a half!
To celebrate this great milestone, msim, who is currently the top poster in our forums at 176 posts (as of August 13th at 8:30PM EST), will be receiving a brand new LEGO Rechargeable Battery Set. We hope to celebrate more wonderful milestones like this in the future. Thanks again!
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New NXTasy Challenge Record - 122 inches
Friday, August 4th, 2006There is a new record in the first ever NXTasy Challenge !
The current leader’s robot managed to throw the blue ball as far as 122 inches from the start line.
Think you can do better? Go ahead and try!
Reminder - Winner gets a digital compass sensor from HiTechnic Products. Best 5 participants get a 25% discount coupon (valid for 3 months) in their next purchase in mindsensors.com. Deadline for participating is December 1st, 2006.
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New Contributor - Dick Swan
Thursday, August 3rd, 2006We are extremely proud to welcome Dick Swan as a contributor to nxtasy.org. With quite a few contributions to the LEGO Mindstorms RCX community, Dick will surely bring us great things for the NXT!
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NXTasy Challenge No. 1 Is Under Way!
Sunday, July 30th, 2006Hello NXT fans!
NXTasy invites you to compete in the first community NXT challenge. The goal is simple! Got an NXT set? Take the blue plastic ball and make a bot that throws it as far as possible! That’s easy? Not so fast! Only LEGO parts are allowed (see rules for details)….
We have a prizes for you, too! Winner gets a brand new Digital Compass Sensor courtesy of HiTechnic Products. Additionally, the top 5 participants will receive a 25% discount coupon (valid for 3 months) for their next purchase at mindsensors.com.
Competition deadline is December 1st, 2006. Rules, regulation and participants’ information can be found here.
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