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About Nxtbot.com
Launched in January of 2006, Nxtbot.com is a blog and Web site dedicated to providing news, reviews, feature stories and interviews concerning the fast-changing world of consumer robotics. Nxtbot.com provides coverage of the entire spectrum of consumer and personal robotics, and encourages site visitors to actively share their own commentary and observations.
Originally sponsored by the LEGO Group, ownership of the Nxtbot.com blog was transferred to Jeff James in November 2007. Nxtbot.com is now a wholly independent robotics blog that is not sponsored, authorized or endorsed by the LEGO Group.
About Jeff James
Jeff James has been an editor, columnist and freelance writer for a variety of computer gaming and technology publications since 1990. His extensive history with the LEGO Company includes helping to launch the first LEGO video games into the U.S. market in 1998 and producing the first BIONICLE game for the Game Boy Advance in 2001. He also contributed to the development of the Junior FIRST LEGO League (JFLL) pilot program, and has been an active event organizer, judge and volunteer for the FIRST LEGO League (FLL) robotic events. Prior to leaving the LEGO Group in July 2005, James served as Editorial Director for LEGO Magazine, distributed to more than 1.5 million registered LEGO Club children in five countries.
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Hello Jeff!
I’m new to the NXT community, but I’ve always been interested in robots and after playing around with NXT Mindstorms for a few years, I’ve started to build a few peripherals for the kit I think others would be interested in. I’m a chemical engineer by background, and I first came across NXT while working with Labview in Grad school a few years back. Since then, I’ve grown more and more interested in easier ways to control machinery. I’m working on a few projects to do that with NXT and think there are some great ways for ChemE’s to use the hardware and software in the lab and classroom.
I started a website a few months ago to put some of the projects up I had worked on with NXT and to put up new ideas. Most of them are pretty simple so far.
My first peripheral is pretty simple. I wanted to be able to control appliances around the house with NXT, just for fun. So I built what I’m calling the “dSwitch”, which allows you to turn on and off an appliance that’s plugged into it. I have a few of them built, and wanted to see if I you knew someone who would be interested in trying it out and giving me some feedback on how to improve it, and how to use it (something more creative than just turning the lights on and off or boiling water!). I would be happy to ship one to anyone interested in trying it out, or giving some feedback. Ditto for the stuff I’m working on right now.
More information on the project can be found at http://dexterindustries.com/Products-dSwitch.html
Thanks for your help!
Best,
John Cole