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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.

This is a quick video I shot with my mobile phone of a new robot called Skittles. Why did I call it Skittles, you ask?  Well, it’s got all colours in the rainbow in it because I simply don’t have enough bricks of one or two colours to build the whole thing uniformly.  So I figured I may as well ...

  Dexter Industries seem to really crank ‘em out lately with all the new sensors.  This time they’ve made a really nice compass sensor based on the Honeywell HMC5883L 3-axis digital compass IC. I’ve had the pleasure of playing with this little beauty for a little while now.  A preliminary driver will be part of version 2.5 of my driver ...

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 ...

Now here’s a bargain you can’t refuse.  The folks over at Robotics Academy have created an RCX-only version of ROBOTC 2.03 and made it available for everyone to download! For free, no less!  That’s a lot of exclamation points! Ever since ROBOTC 2.02+ was released without RCX support, a lot of folks were complaining about the inability to use their ...

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].

Mindsensors have made a new pressure sensor and it’s really sweet.  It uses their new compact sensor housing and it’s very slick and robust looking.  Rather than calling it the PPS v3, they gave it the uebercatchy name PPS58-Nx. So what can it do?  It can measure pressure from 0 to 400 kilopascal (1 to 58 PSI) with a 1 ...

Titus Woo posted on the ROBOTC forums about a really cool new program he’d written to make it easier for FTC teams to make a teleop program for their robot.  I’ve never done FTC but I maintain the ROBOTC forums so I see a lot of question go by during the season about the teleop (Remote Control) part of the ...