Dexter Industries has announced a new product, a wifi module that can be added to a NXT project. The Dexter Industries Wifi sensor for Lego Mindstorms NXT is a sensor designed to allow your NXT to connect to the internet via a local Wifi network. The sensor can be used to communicate via HTTP, TCP, […]
Mark Crosbie’s Lego Street View Car that we blogged in June is back, completely rebuilt: I wanted to re-build the car to only use the Lego Mindstorms NXT motors. I was also keen to make it look more….car-like. The result, after 4 months of experimentation, is version 2.0 of the Lego Street View Car. Every […]
The Brothers Brick has technical details, and a brief interview with builder Nick Jensen about why and how. The “Sniper Rifle System 99 Anti-Matériel” is Nick’s 10th full-size replica weapon, from the Halo universe, built entirely from Lego elements.
Hans Andersson, whose Tilted Twister was one of the first (if not the first) Lego Rubik’s cube solvers, created this elegantly engineered Mindstorms clock. [Via The NXT Step]
Lego builder Guy Himber needed to play the piano 2,000 times in GoW3 to earn an award. However, that didn’t sound like much fun so he created a Lego robot to do it for him. This hits the ‘X’ button at about 67 times per minute, though I think only about 1/2 of them actually […]
First Chess, then Jeopardy, now the Rubic’s Cube. Mike Dobson and David Gilday’s CubeStormer II Rubic’s Cube solving robot successfully beat Australian Feliks Zemdegs’ 5.66 second record by solving a cube in a mere 5.352 seconds. The feat was accomplished using four LEGO Mindstorm NXT kits controlled by a Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone. The Singularity is near, I tell ya.
Catering to Lego fans who can’t find the parts they want from the company (mostly minifig accessories, heavily weighted toward weaponry) BrickForge is a company which designs and molds these elements and sells them on the internet and at Lego conventions. Recently I interviewed BrickForge owner Kyle “Armothe” Peterson about what it was like to […]
