Tag Archives: Mindstorms

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 ...

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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 ...

From the ROBOTC blog: Hi all, We’ve just released ROBOTC 3.05. Head on over to the download pages to download the latest version! Change log: NXT: Allow “File Management” window to play multiple sound files and not just a single file. Fix bug in implementation of NXT intrinsic function “I2CGetSensorInfo”. Holding down gray EXIT button on NXT will now eventually ...

I received my HiTechnic SuperPro Prototype Sensor in the post yesterday and it’s epic.  It’s epic for a number of reasons: It has more inputs and outputs than you can shake a stick at, both analogue and digital. It can 6 digital strobe outputs (great if you want to start your own disco or see which of your friends has ...

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!

Last Thursday Laurens Valk came over to chat and play.  We thought it would be fun to try and do something with our AnyWays, Laurens had brought his with him.  We thought it would be fun to make one follow the other. We’d use the HT IR Ball as a “beacon” on one and the HT IR Seeker on the ...

As per request, here are the ideas of the winners.  I have copied and pasted (most of) the information from the original mails and edited it slightly. Benoît Genest: An omniwheeled container handler. In almost every Intermodal port, you can find Container Handlers (or Reachstacker) . These are usually 4- wheeled telehandlers featuring a specially adapted claw to handle containers ...

Man, this was really, really difficult.  There were some really good submissions but in the end there could only be three winners.  So without further ado, the people who will be receiving a set of these wheels are: Simon Burfield Benoît Genest Brian Bachmeier Congratulations to the three of you and I really hope you will share your inventions with me ...