Ramblings

Good news for all my German readers.  You may not have won the Euro2012 championships, but if you’re looking to do some retail therapy, why not head on over to Amazon.de?  You can now buy a selection of Dexter Industries sensors without the hassle of dealing with customs. Ausgezeignet! You can buy the following sensors: The NXTBee WIFI for LEGO ...

BOFH-2012 EX-Q, the ultimate Bastard Operator From Hell Excuse generator. Not sure why the server is not working right? Can’t be bothered to figure why the mails aren’t being served? Just want to shut up the person on the other side of the phone line? Now you can do all that at the touch of a button!  Here are some ...

Last Saturday, Laurens and I were asked to give a LEGO Mindstorms NXT demo at the Dutch Robocup Junior championships.  We had our table setup on the second deck, right along the path to the actual arena. There were plenty of robots there but one in particular caught my eye.  It was the Talentenclub’s Talentenbot.  It was the only one ...

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 I was blown away (pardon the pun). The book is ...

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 “board room” for robot building workshops. After a rocky start ...

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 already.

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 improve and support the LEGO fan community we have partnered ...

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 Lee Magpili about his Gaga Robots (not Lady Gaga) A ...

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: The physical dimensions (L x W x H) of a ...

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 be quick or forever wander the planet without direction.  Maybe ...