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Flying is fun, but if you can’t fly, you jump. The NXT is a bit on the heavy side, though. If you know of a jumping NXT bot, share in the comments! Find more info here, and and the Boston Dynamics webpage.

One of my readers told me about a new WiFi NXT sensor crowd funding project by Daniele Benedettelli. Below you can see a video, but here’s what it does in short: “NXT2WIFI is a miniature web server module featuring a fully integrated 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi interface, giving your LEGO® MINDSTORMS® creations access to any Wi-Fi...

Bluetooth is a cool feature and it’s especially fun if you can make it work. That’s apparently a bit tricky, but it’s really not difficult if you’ve got a simple place to start. This page will show you two sets of programs that demonstrate the most basic Bluetooth example programs for two NXT with RobotC....

You’d think I’d be bored with self balancing robots by now but I’m not! The Technic Unimog has huge wheels and I thought I might as well put them on Anyway. Then I thought that one wheel might be enough to stay up right, and it was. I know this is not a true unicycle,...

Mike Brandl posted a video of his flying LEGO contraption (see more info here). Pretty cool! And for those who haven’t seen it yet, here’s the NXT blimp by Kenneth Madsen and Lasse Lauesen. As I write this, I’m in the midst of a Fluid Mechanics course. Perhaps by the end of the course I’ll...

This tutorial will show you how to use and modify a standard NXT-G program to create a working LEGO NXT Segway balancing robot that you can customize as you like. I am assuming you will use the ‘Anyway’ platform. Once everything is up and running, you’re free to customize this one and create your own Segway....

I haven’t been to a lot of FTC competitions, but this one was held in Delft, just about 500m from my apartment. So I went there to take some pictures and shoot some video. I’ve got to admit that the Tetrix system looks quite cool, but it’s pretty expensive. The competition was okay, though it...

I’ve updated my RobotC Segway drivers to version 0.97. For the full change log, see the driver file itself. The latest driver will always be at this link. In normal language, what has changed? Nothing most of you should worry about. If you replace your old “segway-driver-lv.h” with the new one in this file, you...

I originally posted this list to the NXT Step, but I’m posting here to make it easier to find. Updates will be posted to this page on Robot Square only. This page is a list of Bluetooth Dongles that are confirmed to be compatible with the NXT. Contributions were made to NXT owners from around...