One of my readers, Elias Barcia, mailed me back in May 2013 to ask for some input for a university project he was working on: make the three generations of MINDSTORMS, RCX, NXT and EV3 communicate with eachother. I gave him some feedback and pointers and some time passed. I had all but forgotten about it until he mailed me ...
Read More »‘s robot! Yes, that’s right, you can reach out and play with Laurens’ Alpha Rex over the Big Interwebs! He made a cool looking web interface for it and allows you check out what it’s doing via a webcam! I did something similar a while back but not nearly as cool looking as this! Go check it out before it’s ...
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New Kid on the WiFiBlock A new player has entered the arena of WiFi sensors. A French company by the name of HumaRobotics has developed a new WiFI sensor for the NXT, the WiFiBlock. This sensor is a bit different from existing sensors in that it uses I2C, not RS485 to communicate with the NXT. It runs on 3xAA batteries ...
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