Ramblings

If there are certain features you would like to have added to the 2.0 version of the suite, you can leave a comment at the end of this post.  If it’s something that will be of use to others as well than I will consider implementing it.  Now is a good chance to change parts of the API because I ...

Thanks to the hard work of Gus Jansson of HiTechnic, you can now do sin, cos and atan2, all from the comfort of your NXT-G programming environment!  How cool is that? Just go to this page and scroll to the bottom.  There are integer versions for NXT-G 1.0 and floating point ones for NXT-G 2.0. They’re proper NXT-G blocks and ...

Holit Data Systems has kindly provided Russian translations of my most recent articles on their website.  Go check it out! Мое судно на воздушной подушке полно угрей!

I pulled this off my stats page this afternoon!  Wow, I would never have thought I’d get this many people coming to my blog when I first started it back in June 2008.  It’s cool to see that the work I put into this blog isn’t just for a small handful of people.  Here’s a screenshot of the top 10 ...

I’d like to wish all of my readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year or if they’re celebrating something else to have fun doing that.  If tomorrow is “Wet Noodle Slapping Day” in your part of the world then I wish much happiness celebrating that. May 2011 bring you all the happiness you deserve, good health and perhaps ...

I’m on TV! Well, kind of.  I did a video podcast interview last weekend for Joey, also known as Jojoguy10 who runs the Lego-X website. It was kind of daunting to do the interview and actually and even more difficult to watch now. I am not a big fan of my hearing my own voice, which is hard to imagine ...

Nadie espera que la Inquisición Española! A new edition of the Hispabrick Magazine is out with more interviews with MCPs and the history of the MCP programme.  This time HM interviewed both John Hansen and Ralph Hempel, two guys who have been an MCP (and it predecessors) for more years than most. Another very cool article is the second installment ...

The Rotocaster wheels have started rolling off the production line.  I was pleasantly surprised by their price, they’re really quite cheap.  They’re currently only available from the fine folks at Rotacaster but they’re very busy looking for additional distributors across the world. You can buy them individually for $21.45 (AUS) or as a four pack for a mere $72.60 (AUS).  ...

If you like ROBOTC and you like Arduino or you like ROBOTC and you have no idea what Arduino is –or- you like Arduino and have no idea what ROBOTC is, then you’ve come to the right place. The Robotics Academy is looking for a few good (wo)men who want to help take the new upcoming version of ROBOTC for ...

When I started up Lego Digital Designer (LDD) this morning, I was greeted with a popup telling me that a new version was out. 120 odd Megabytes downloaded and installed later, I was presented with a very slick looking UI. The thing I love about this version the most is the building instructions (BI).  It now breaks up the model ...