Mark Crosbie’s Street View Car is packed with goodies, including a NXT brick, a dGPS sensor from Dexter Indistries, a NXTBee module, some cheap “spy cams” for imaging, and Mindstorms and Power Functions motors to run the thing. It all started when was playing with the dGPS sensor from Dexter Industries, and realised that if […]
Just what you need to speed up your D&D sessions! The mission: To make an absurdly overcomplicated robot to do something as simple as roll some dice. It’s sort of a Rube Goldberg machine although for the sake of practicality there’s buttons to control the throwing and then the picking back up again so that […]
Mike Brandl’s Globe Plotter can draw the shapes of the continents on a white ball. For this robot the coordinates of the continents were prepared as a zigzag line, drawn with a green felt tip pen. After the continents are drawn the robot switches colors from green to black. With this pen the continents are […]
akiyukyi’s brick sorter uses a digital scale and a webcam to sort bricks into broad categories like gears, Technic beams, plates, and so on. [Via The NXT Step]
We posted pix of Martijn “Dino_Martino” Hellemans’ Mindstorms ‘fully functional battle tank‘ last month, and here is a video. To recap, it has caterpillar treads with independent suspension, cruise control, LED headlights, semi-automatic brick flinger with laser sighting, and the whole shebang can be run by a Playstation 3 controller.
The NXTBee from dexter industries lets you connect to multiple NXTs and other devices using standard XBee radios. Now your NXT can talk to another NXT or an entire swarm.
Dexter Industries, who build 3rd party sensors for Lego Mindstorms — including a GPS unit called the dGPS — built a NXT device that alerts a driver when he or she drives too fast. Download the NXT program file here. [via The NXTStep]
