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This is the basic Segway platform that you will use in each of the Segway tutorials. The robot is often referred to as ‘Anyway’, because you can build this robot with ‘Any’ version of Mindstorms NXT. Apart from a (any) NXT set, you will need a Gyroscopic Sensor for balance measurement: Either the HiTechnic Gyroscope,...

This room explorer was built in April 2006 when I just started building with LEGO MINDSTORMS. Not much to say about this one, other than that I probably used it to practice my building and programming skills. With the concept of a ‘sensor’ being new to me then (hey, I was 12!), there were enough...

NXT-G won’t be the next step to singularity, but there’s still a lot you can use it for. I’ve recently been working with NXT-G to create a program for my balancing robots. I’ve done this in the past, but this time I wanted to create some clean and easy to use code that doesn’t require...

You know what happens to a lot of websites eventually. They become inactive, leaving new readers frustrated with messages like “Last update 2009”. I think that happened to my old website too. Not updating a website doesn’t always mean the author has stopped with what he worked on, though. For instance, I’ve been building robots...