Ramblings

Day 3 at LEGO World welcomed a big group of new exhibitors; we now have Ricardo Oliviera from Portugal with his vending machine, Sebastian Trella from Germany who brought a couple of his educational robots, Lasse and Kenneth, the two Danish guys with the awesome blimp and 3 guys from the German University of Kassel.

Thursday was crazy busy at LEGO World. No movie today, however. Tammy (my wife) came over to see what all the hubbub was about and she took tonnes of pictures which she’ll edit and upload later. It was kind of cool to see how the people move through the venue in large waves. At 10:00 the masses start entering through ...

Day 1 started a little late for me because I had to make a stop-over at Eric’s work to pick up a robot (as if we didn’t have enough of those yet) and his laptop for Monster Chess.  The place was a real ant-hill, all sold out and it looks like Thursday is the same. I shot a video of ...

I shot a small video of the LEGO Mindstorms stand being built and the weirdos that inhabit it.  I’ll try to make a video of each day. A small warning, this video contains some slightly NSFW language (one bad word).  I am pretty sure it won’t get you fired, though.  May also contain nuts.

Are you in the Netherlands and want to come see lots of cool robots?  Then come to the HCC Robotica Open Day in Hooglanderveen this coming Saturday 1 October. I’ll be there with my NXTs, so if you want come by, to say “hello” or check out all the cool stuff that’s there, don’t hesitate to drop by!  It’s always ...

Since I’ve been working on my Kinect application I’ve had to deal with Bluetooth addresses a lot and it seems pretty tricky to map these to their associated friendly names.  To avoid the problem altogether, I’ve started renaming all my bricks to the last 3 LSB (Least Significant Bytes), seeing as the 3 MSBs are always the same anyway.  This ...

The winners of the give-away have been mailed their license.  To check if you’ve won, have a look at the list here: [LINK].  If your name is not on the list then I’m afraid you didn’t win anything.  If your name -is- on the list and you didn’t get a mail, make sure you check the spam folder.  The mail ...

And the winners of the ROBOTC License give-away are: Andrew Selkirk Anita Quesnoy Bill Shaw Brian Bachmeier Caz Smith Charlie & Tiffany Haning Chris Herrera Christian Barrett Christopher Hall Colton Mehlhoff Croghen Crystal Huynh Daniel Playfair Cal Dennis Hardjo Don Roos Eric Tan Erwin de Vries Felix Brox Fitz Kids Frédéric Quesnoy Fredrik Löfgren Gábor Parádi Gilbert Kohle GiLeon Dan ...

THE GIVE-AWAY IS OVER! The give-away is over, the lucky winners have been drawn.  Check if your name is on the list here: [LINK]. Just so you know Just to remind you that if you have not already submitted your name and email address for the ROBOTC 3.0 annual license give-away, to do so now!  All the details can be ...

I’m always curious to know how other people’s LEGO rooms look.  I made a quick video of what mine looks like so you can see.  It’s pretty tidy now because this is also my home office and I can’t work very well if it’s all cluttered.  It doesn’t look this tidy in the weekends. I have a small box with ...