Mindstorms Blimp Drone
This blimp uses two 55″ helium balloons, Dexter Industries NXTBee wireless modules, a servo, and two DC motors. One of the creators, Tyler Westmoreland, shared the RobotC code. [via Dexter Industries]
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Using Lego Mindstorms Sensors With a Raspberry Pi
Dexter Industries has been playing around with the RPi lately, and hooked up a Mindstorms-compatible accelerometer/gyroscope to a RPi running Raspbian. They have a full tutorial showing how they did it.
Lovely Lego Ball Clock
Jason Allemann, who created these Lego mazes last year, built this beautiful and elegant Lego ball clock. The video shows how the rail system works with one ball being hauled up the chain every minute, then tipping the balance once enough balls have accumulated. [via Brothers Brick]
Upgrade Your Lego Wii to a Lego Wii U
This is fun. If you think it, you can build it! Especially if you have an iPad don’t mind your Wii U being huge! [via the Brothers Brick]
Help Pancake Bot Go to Maker Faire Bay Area
Miguel Valenzuela, whose Pancake Bot took Maker Faire New York by storm, is looking to crowdfunding for help to send him and his family to the Bay Area this spring. Miguel is offering contributors to his IndieGoGo campaign various Pancake Bot related premiums like the PDF build instructions for the robot itself. Check it out!
MAKE at CES 2013: Lego Previews Mindstorms EV3
Yesterday I finally had the chance to check out Lego’s booth in the Kids@Play section of CES. They’re previewing the newest version of their robotics platform, Mindstorms EV3, for show attendees. After I finally managed to elbow my way to the front of their packed booth, I was able to get the details on their […]
Mindstorms Axle Sorter
Japanese Lego builder akiyuky has been featured on the MAKE blog numerous times, including his great ball contraption (and another) as well as his monster 5-axis robotic arm. This time he’s built a large robot the sole purpose of which is to sort his Lego cross axles by length. This is such a maker thing […]
