Ramblings

As per request, here are the ideas of the winners.  I have copied and pasted (most of) the information from the original mails and edited it slightly. Benoît Genest: An omniwheeled container handler. In almost every Intermodal port, you can find Container Handlers (or Reachstacker) . These are usually 4- wheeled telehandlers featuring a specially adapted claw to handle containers ...

Man, this was really, really difficult.  There were some really good submissions but in the end there could only be three winners.  So without further ado, the people who will be receiving a set of these wheels are: Simon Burfield Benoît Genest Brian Bachmeier Congratulations to the three of you and I really hope you will share your inventions with me ...

Well, not really a gorilla, but a very uniquely coloured sensor from Dexter Industries which has been named after Snowflake, the albino gorilla, which you can see to your left, looking seductively at the camera. You can win a Dexter Industries dIMU, with a really cool white NXT socket, it’s a one of a kind, so make sure you enter!  ...

HiTechnic have started selling the Rotacaster wheels now as well.  That’s great news for people who live State-side.  Now you won’t have to worry about US customs intercepting your nice wheels and using them for something themselves. HiTechnic is selling them in packs of two and you can get right here: [LINK]. They plan to have cool models up on ...

Don’t forget that if you want to win 3 of those awesome Rotacaster wheels, you have only 10 days left to submit your idea to xander_at_botbench_dot_com (fix the address). You MUST put the words “ROTACASTER GIVE AWAY” in the subject. More details can be found here: [LINK].

Feeling lucky? So you feeling lucky, punk?  Well, do you?  If you so, why not enter the Rotacaster wheel contest?  There are three sets of three wheels to give away. One set of each of the wheels below. Hardness: S35A (soft) Hardness: S35A (soft) Hardness: S65A (harder) They’re all compatible with the LEGO cross-axle and all are very nice to work ...

If you like this site and would like to help support it, that would be really welcome.  There are a few ways to do this.  You can purchase a ROBOTC license by clicking this link here: [LINK].  That will give me a certain percentage of the sale of the license.  It’s the same link the ad to your right takes ...

Tammy, my wonderful wife, was at LEGO World 2011 on day 2 and took a whole bunch of photos, which came out very nicely.  You can view the album here: [LINK]. Below is a small selection.  Click on the images to take you a bigger version.    

Today was the last day for me at LEGO World, as it was for a number of the exhibitors at the Mindstorms booth.  I procured some Rotacaster wheels for the Kassler University guys (thanks Peter) and they wasted no time cloning the omniwheeled robot this morning.  It was a real collaborative effort with 2 of us building it and one ...

Saturday, day 4, was a really awesome day.  Peter McKinnon and Claus Seitz from Rotacaster drove up from Duesseldorf to come see me.  It was great to finally meet each other after almost a year and half of mailing and Skyping during the development process of their robotic omniwheels.  They were blown away by the sheer size of the venue ...