Exotic timepieces of all stripes have always fascinated me, from water-powered clocks to the massive type that serves as an integral part of building architecture. Rolling ball clocks have also piqued my interest, hence this post about Philippe (“Philo”) Hurbain’s RCX-powered rolling ball clock, based on an original design by Bob Kojima. Powered by a [...]
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HiTechnic Products announces NXT Sensors
HiTechnic Products has been making custom sensors and accessories for the original RCX for years. Now they’ve expanded their product line to support the new NXT as well, and have announced two NXT-ready products: a compass sensor and a color sensor (latter pictured above). Here’s some additional info on the compass sensor from the HiTechnic [...]
RCX Old School: The DominoBot
Everyone loves to see a giant row of dominos getting knocked over in perfect sequence, with lines of the falling tiles snaking off into every direction. Everyone loves to see the finale, but what about all the hard work that went in to lining up thousands of those blasted little things? Robot builder Dave Astolfo [...]
RCX Old School: Rubik’s Cube Solver
Having spent a winter or two during my youth in the 1980′s trying — mostly unsuccessfully — to solve that brightly-colored bundle of endless frustration and obsession known as the Rubik’s Cube, I eventually gave up and moved on to other puzzling pursuits. Frustration with inanimate objects becomes me, I guess. Close to 20 years [...]
RCX Old School: Pinball Machine
We’ve chosen one of the more ambitous projects we’ve received to kick-off our coverage of old school (pre-NXT) Mindstorms creations: an RCX-powered, full-size pinball machine! Designed and built by Gerrit Bronsveld and Martijn Boogaarts, this fully functional pinball machine boasts a number of novel features, including a working coin slot (50 cent Euro coins only, [...]
We need you! A call for Mindstorms creations
As we inch closer to the launch of the new Mindstorms NXT later this fall, we’d like to take a nostalgic look back at some of the best creations from the last generation of Mindstorms. Many of us have seen some incredible Mindstorms constructs over the years, ranging from Rubik’s cube solvers and copiers to [...]
NXT vs RCX: What’s New?
The official LEGO Education site has a nice comparison chart showing — in detail — the differences between the exiting RCX Mindstorms system and the new NXT product. The chart has been up for a while, but a quick lookthrough may be useful to those of you intrigued by the differences between the new and [...]
Microsoft, Visual Studio Express and Mindstorms
As a follow-up to a recent post concerning Microsoft’s activity in the educational robotics arena, we’ve learned (by way of Windowsfordevices.com) that Microsoft has added some Mindstorms related content to the “Coding4Fun” section of the MSDN developer website. The resources include an introduction to programming Mindstorms with Visual Studio Express (by Sharplogic Software), while another [...]
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