Month

August 2012
30
Aug

From idea to product: Minute Bot base ready for shipping

Some great ideas don’t make it to production stage. But the MinuteBot Baseplate did, and it looks promising. By popular demand, they chose to change the color from red to light grey. These should soon be available for purchase on their website. A few of these are coming my way, so I hope to review...
19
Aug

RiSE: Robotics Inspired Science Education in Ghana

In this post I would like to share the reports of the RiSE workshops held in Ghana, 2011. RiSE stands for Robotics Inspired Science Education. The following excerpt from the report describes briefly what RiSE is about. The mission of Ghana Robotics Academy Foundation (GRAF) is to design accessible and innovative programs that will excite...
16
Aug

New Book: Arduino + LEGO NXT Motors / Sensors

This book (by John Baichtal et all) shows you how to combine the Arduino with LEGO NXT Components. As far as I can tell, this will teach you how to replace your NXT controller by an arduino — not combine them. Still pretty cool! From the description: Make amazing robots and gadgets by combining two...
02
Aug

MLCAD / LPUB 4 Patch: Ghost Arrows

For advanced MLCAD/LDVIEW/LPUB4 users, here’s a patch that comes in useful when you make LDRAW CAD instructions for LEGO models with many arrows and sub models. If this doesn’t sound familiar to you, you won’t need this. I’d be surprised if more than 25 people on this earth used it, anyway. Download it here: GhostArrowsV1....

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