Ramblings

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. Robot Square is a gathering (hence the Square) of robots ...

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 please. Well done people!  Send me your postal addresses if ...

“Omni all the wheels!” That was my first thought when I received these new Rotacaster 125mm omniwheels.  They’re fantastic looking and HUGE, about 3 times the diameter of the 43mm ones that are being sold now.  They have some pretty impressive stats; they can handle a load of more than 100 kilos each!  I am not sure when they are ...

I like to make bots LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Build them brick by brick Think you can come up with something better?  Leave it in the comments!  Best 3 get a Rotacaster key chain hanger! Not sure how to make a Haiku?  Check out this page: [LINK].

I’d like to wish all of my readers a very happy and prosperous 2012. 2011 was a big year for my blog and NXT-sensor land.  I moved from a hosted WordPress blog on wordpress.com to my own one on HostGator.com.  I’ve never been happier about a hosting company.  We had some major issues with our previous one (Hostway) which hosted ...

Just want to wish all of my readers a Merry Christmas or whatever it is you’re (not) celebrating.  I hope you have a great time with your family and friends and may 2012 bring you all the things you need and some of the things you want!

This the LEGO Mindstorms demo stand at the FLL regional finals in Eindhoven. More videos and pictures later!

Just a quick note to let everyone know I’m off to the FLL regional finals today in Eindhoven. Got my robots packed and ready to go. This is also a test to try out the WordPress app on my phone. if the post ends up looking rubbish at least you’ll know why!

Once again, Jetro has published a new edition of Hispabrick. In This Issue You Will Have the Opportunity to learn more about Mike Doyle and His abandoned houses, trains created by Anthony Sava, the robots of Simon Burfield and the game Super Robo Rally by Steve Hassenplug. You Will Learn About LEGO ® Technic efficient Structures by Oton Ribic and ...