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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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 - LabVIEW Toolkit for LEGO Mindstorms NXT
Tuesday, August 8th, 2006
Last week, Guy hinted at the release of a toolkit that would allow users to program their NXT robots in LabVIEW. Well, today at NIWeek 2006, National Instruments officially announced the LabVIEW Toolkit for the LEGO Mindstorms NXT!
Here’s the official press release:
National Instruments, a global leader in virtual instrumentation, today announced the NI LabVIEW Toolkit for LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT. With the new toolkit, LabVIEW users can create and download VIs to operate and control the MINDSTORMS NXT robotics platform. Third-party software and hardware developers also can use the toolkit to create native blocks for MINDSTORMS NXT software. MINDSTORMS NXT, the next generation of the popular LEGO robotics invention system, became available earlier this month and includes a new programming environment, custom developed by NI and powered by LabVIEW.
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Mindstorms NXT Driver v1.02
Thursday, August 3rd, 2006Thanks to Brian Davis for mentioning that LEGO is now offering an updated driver for the Mindstorms NXT.
“This software updates the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT driver and addresses an issue that prevents the firmware from being downloaded to the NXT on some occasions.”
PC’s 7.12MB vs. Mac’s 351KB
Heheheh..
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What to say NXT?
Sunday, July 2nd, 2006Get used to the cheesy headlines. Anyhoo, the LEGO Mindstorms NXT can surely say some pretty cool things out of the box. I don’t know about you, but there are tons of other things I’d like my robots to be able to say. You know, like “Good afternoon, Eric. That tie looks sharp.” Or even “All your base are belong to us!” to remind me of yesteryear.
Well, the folks at the AT&T research labs have a cool text-to-speech tool to make your robots speak their little hearts out. You can choose from a variety of speech characters with different genders and accents. Just convert the downloaded file into an NXT-compatible sound file, drop into a sound block, and enjoy!
Here’s a sample.
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SoundBot, Classic Clock, and Software Downloads
Friday, June 30th, 2006
The My Portal section of the Mindstorms NXT IDE has been updated. It looks like we’ll be getting a few new projects to try out. Hopefully, a new firmware update is included.
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