When NoStarch Press contacted me a week or two so ago about doing a review about a book called “LEGO® Heavy Weapons”, I must admit I was a little skeptical. I am not a big fan of guns or violence but when I saw a PDF preview of this book [...]
Yesterday, the hosting company Schuberg Philis organised a LEGO day at its offices for all the employees and, of course, the kids. It was split into two parts, downstairs they had prepared a large auditorium with big tables full of LEGO for the younger kids and upstairs we had the [...]
There are currently issues with the Mindboards Forums. SF communicated this a few days ago and it seems the issues have not been resolved yet. There’s not a whole lot we can do about it, unfortunately. I would suggest you add SF.net Operations to your Twitter feeds, if you haven’t [...]
LEGO wants to know what you think! They’ve created a survey for people over the age of 13. So make your opinions count and fill out one of the surveys (pick a language of your choice), linked below. Dear LEGO fan, The LEGO fan community is important to us. To [...]
This installment of HispaBrick has a whopping 96 pages! I’m not going to mention all of the contents here, of course. Some of the highlights include: An interview with Jørgen Vig Knudstorp (LEGO’s CEO) Part 1 of a LEGO Pneumatics tutorial by none other than Kevin Clague An article by [...]
I came across a very cool Kickstarter project called “MinuteBot Base”. From what I gather from the project, it’s a 21×30 hole studless plate which you can use a stable base for your robot. I have no idea why LEGO didn’t come up with this themselves. From their Kickstarter page: [...]
Not sure where to go? Need a compass for your NXT? Then head to Aswin’s blog and you could win one of the new Dexter Industries dCompass sensors. Entering is easy, just follow the instructions in the article! You’d better hurry though, the give-away closes on March 15, 2012, so [...]
Anika Vuurzoon has created something so cool. She NXTified the new LEGO Friends invention workshop set (3933). It looks simply fantastic. You should check out her Youtube channel, she’s quite the artist.
Laurens Valk is proud to announce the birth of his new site: Robot Square. Apart from a place where he intends to host designs and examples of some of the cool robots he’s made over the years and is working on now, it will also have tutorials and much more. [...]
The winners are known Making Haikus is great fun Winning stuff is best Matthias Paul Scholtz: My winter robot LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT – Will it outlive spring? Brian Bachmeier: Robots, Programming NXT Sensors Exposed Welcome to Bot Bench Joraaver: Little Lego bots Always bring my room to life However I [...]
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