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07
Jan

EV3 Hardware: Home Edition #31313

The LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Home Edition contains an EV3 brick, three motors (Two Large, one Medium), three sensors (IR, Color, Touch) and a remote control. The home edition is the one you’ll find in toy stores and other retail channels like Amazon. It’s set number is 31313. You can see the complete family of hardware...
07
Jan

Preview: The New Robots – LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3

Did StackExchange send you here? Then you are probably looking for this article instead: The Difference Between EV3 Home Edition (#31313) and Education EV3 (#45544) Do me a favor and fix the link! πŸ™‚ The New EV3 Robots All the tech blogs are at it right now, LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 is out! Only the tech...
07
Jan

LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 – A new Generation!

The LEGO Group will announce their latest innovation of LEGO MINDSTORMS this week at the international Consumer Electronics Show (CES). LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3, the successor of NXT, continues the popular LEGO MINDSTORMS product line, and it’s better than ever. The new EV3 system makes it easy to start building robots in no time. Beginning users...
28
Nov

Customizable Line Following Tracks that you can print yourself

Want to put your line following skills to the test? Whether you use LEGO MINDSTORMS, Arduino, or any other robotics platform, I’ve made it easy for you to do just that. You can now easily make your own line following tracks by just printing a set of standard tiles. It’s all free, so go ahead...
23
Nov

Marking 4,000,000 video views after 6 years on YouTube

Six years have gone by since I uploaded my first video to YouTube. The oldest video was already a few years old back then, but still worth sharing. When I began sharing my videos, I had no idea that LEGO MINDSTORMS videos (in general) would be so popular as they turn out to be today....
25
Oct

40% Off All No Starch Press LEGO Books

That’s right – $17.97 for the print Discovery Book (and free ebook!). That’s a better offer than Amazon, so get it while you can. They’ve got the new LEGO Technic Builder’s Guide as well! Update: This offer has expired!
23
Oct

Posting from Mobile

This post is a test to see if I can make a proper blog post from my mobile device. I’m including a picture as well, made with said device. Since you’re reading this, I’ll give you a sneak peak of my current project. I’m working on an updated version of my Segway RobotC driver, which...
01
Oct

A turntable with the Minutebot Base

Remember the MinuteBot Baseplate Kickstarter project? It was funded successfully, so the base plates have been turned into a real product. I’ve received a few plates last week as part of the pledge I made to the project. I’m quite satisfied with the quality of the product. They’re strong and hold LEGO pieces well. Obviously,...
13
Sep

Discovery E-Book now available

The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 Discovery Book is now available on Kindle. It’s also available as a PDF or EPub. You can get the Kindle edition directly from Amazon. Instead you can buy the “Ebook Bundle” from the publisher. The package includes a PDF file (Computer/iPad), a Mobi file (Kindle), and an Epub (Sony reader...
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