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Lego Mindstorms EV3 Most Useless Machine

Lego Mindstorms EV3 Most Useless Machine

Laurens Valk built this quick & dirty “most useless machine” with a Lego Mindstorms EV3 set. It consists of a touch sensor acting as a switch and a servo motor resetting the switch every time it’s pulled. It’s a machine with no purpose other than to shut itself off!

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Sleek New Design

12 Surprising Details About Lego Mindstorms EV3

Yesterday I unboxed the new Lego Mindstorms EV3 set, and even before powering on the microcontroller brick, I’d noticed a number of interesting changes, both great and unfortunate, as compared with the previous set, called Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0.

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Lego Mindstorms EV3 Unboxing Video

Lego Mindstorms EV3 Unboxing Video

This video by EV3 developer Laurens Valk shows you what you get in the box. The word on the street is that the Technic parts are mostly the same as previous sets, with the EV3 microcontroller brick showing the most changes.

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Flyer-Delivering Lego Robot

Flyer-Delivering Lego Robot

High school student Leon Overweel built this sick flyer robot to hand out leaflets Rye High School science fair. It uses an ultrasonic sensor to detect a visitor, then pulls a flyer off of a pile and hands it to the visitor. My favorite details are the Fergelli linear actuators and the Mindsensors Flexi Cables. […]

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