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    Nanontron 3000: The iPod Nano Hacking Lego Robot

    MoonBots Challenge Lets Kids Simulate Lunar X Prize Landing—With Lego

    Incredible Mindstorms NXT Theater Creates Pirate Battle On Lego Seas

    Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 'Bots Can Spot Their Favorite Color

    Lego Masturbator Machine Will Make Mindstorms NXT Sales Explode (NSFW)

    14-Pound Lego Safe Is Guarded by 305 Billion Codes

    Wii Fit + LEGO Mindstorms = Super Nerd Soccer

    Lego Mindstorms Fat Boy Is Controlled with Actual Bike Handles

    Moving Lego Donkey Kong People, Lego Donkey F*cking Kong

    Lego Robot Sends Pictures from Space, Wishes It Had Lasers to Annihilate Us All
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    Image of Jesustron Jesustron
    08/31/09

    In reply to Nanontron 3000: The iPod Nano Hacking Lego Robot
    If they're not careful they'll BRICK their ipod
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    Image of MeanMF MeanMF
    08/31/09

    @Jesustron, Now with more beer!: Or Apple might try to block their progress...
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE
    08/31/09

    @MeanMF: Hopefully they won't Lego their dreams to crack the iPods.
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    Image of SysRq SysRq
    08/10/09

    In reply to Moving Lego Donkey Kong People, Lego Donkey F*cking Kong
    That is the coolest fucking thing I have ever seen.
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    Image of phaota phaota
    08/09/09

    In reply to MoonBots Challenge Lets Kids Simulate Lunar X Prize Landing—With Lego
    Clever vehiclebot, but not a good design. If it fell over, how would it right itself? The best design is to use treads on a flipable bot. If it rolls over something that flips it over, it can keep going without problems. For taking samples, pics, etc., all it will have to do is stop, raise its equipment from closed hatches and go to work.
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    Image of frigg frigg
    08/09/09

    In reply to MoonBots Challenge Lets Kids Simulate Lunar X Prize Landing—With Lego
    I thought the idea for the original MoonBot contest was to send Hanson minifigures to the moon in advance of sending the brothers themselves?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE
    08/09/09

    In reply to MoonBots Challenge Lets Kids Simulate Lunar X Prize Landing—With Lego
    So given the extremes of environment and radiation, how long would Legos survive on the surface of da moon?
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    Image of Deep-Blue Deep-Blue
    08/09/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_HasAList: The plastic Lego parts themselves probably wouldn't fare too bad, but it's the electronics you have to worry about. Without the proper shielding, the radiation would probably screw with the memory. And since I doubt the system has any built-in safeguards/redundancies to protect against things like that, it means the electronics wouldn't last too long.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE
    08/09/09

    @Deep-Blue: Well, I'm worried about photo-degradation of the Lego pieces. Shielding the electronics would be easy, but not the whole craft.
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    Image of aerospaceman aerospaceman
    08/09/09

    In reply to MoonBots Challenge Lets Kids Simulate Lunar X Prize Landing—With Lego
    cool, I love Mindstorm NXT. I might get involved with this challenge.
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    Image of aerospaceman aerospaceman
    08/09/09

    @aerospaceman:
    if I had kids I would, I just went to the site.
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    Image of Scotland Scotland
    08/09/09


    @aerospaceman:
    "The new contest will challenge small teams comprised of children and adults" - I think I might know a way around that problem.
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    Image of Scotland Scotland
    08/09/09


    @Scotland:
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    Image of Bob_Dole Bob_Dole
    05/17/09

    In reply to Incredible Mindstorms NXT Theater Creates Pirate Battle On Lego Seas
    That program must've taken a good deal of time to drag and click. Since, the Lego Mindstorms program isn't text based. Good god, someone sure had a lot of time.
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    05/18/09

    @Bob_Dole:
    The standard Mindstorms programming language certainly isn't, but there are at least half a dozen other languages that people have either created from scratch, modified, or just plain figured out how to make them work on the NXT. Offhand, the only one I can think of is "lejos", just because of the name, but I know there's at least one C++ variant.
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    Image of bufftbone bufftbone
    05/17/09

    In reply to Incredible Mindstorms NXT Theater Creates Pirate Battle On Lego Seas
    F'n A!!!!!
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    Image of LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M
    05/17/09

    @bufftbone:


    That is one of the most worthless comments. Please, don't spew crapola here.

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    Image of LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M
    05/17/09

    In reply to Incredible Mindstorms NXT Theater Creates Pirate Battle On Lego Seas
    Well it was very cute.


    Pros:

    1. Cool Mosaics

    2. Nice mods on the various ships

    3. Use of the mindstorms made it like a classic puppet show


    Cons:

    1.Too much shark! We get it, there are sharks.

    2. No treasure? I saw a treasure map, but where is a cave full of gold, or rubies, diamonds crowns etc? Pirates sans epic treasure = Not so awesome treasure!

    3. Only the new pirates? I have every one of those figs with only 2 sets, mainly the giant pirate ship.

    4. Were is some classic lego? Integrate some tributes to some other sets!


    I will return with some real treasure photos!


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    Image of Xterm11: I agree with you. Xterm11: I agree with you.
    05/17/09

    In reply to Incredible Mindstorms NXT Theater Creates Pirate Battle On Lego Seas
    Totally photoshopped.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    05/17/09

    @Xterm11 - The star commenter's minion: CG rendering.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    05/17/09

    In reply to Incredible Mindstorms NXT Theater Creates Pirate Battle On Lego Seas
    Awesome, right down to the parrot.
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    Image of switchblade saints switchblade saints
    05/17/09

    In reply to Incredible Mindstorms NXT Theater Creates Pirate Battle On Lego Seas
    fake, totally tilt-shift and those are real boats and pirates.
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    Image of ceilingFANBOY ceilingFANBOY
    05/17/09

    @switchblade saints: If it weren't for the lifehacker article from a couple days ago for a tilt shift program I would not have had any clue what the fuck that meant.
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    Image of KefkaticFanatic KefkaticFanatic
    02/16/09

    In reply to Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 'Bots Can Spot Their Favorite Color
    Black isn't a colour!
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    02/17/09

    @KefkaticFanatic: yay, neither is white!


    La-te-frickin-DA!

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    Image of Tim Reid Tim Reid
    02/16/09

    In reply to Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 'Bots Can Spot Their Favorite Color
    Um....we've used robotics controllers in school for years that can do this. Why is color recognition something new and exciting?
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    Image of dingus dingus
    02/16/09

    @Tim Reid: Because, Tim (I can call you Tim, right?), Little Jimmy Brokeass can afford this on a year's saved allowance. In comparison, your gold brickin' private school science department uses First Robotics kits wrapped in rich Corinthian leather, something Little Jimmy can only touch in his dreams.
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    02/17/09

    @dingus: I completely agree with your point, however I must question your willingness to completely haul off and pimp-slap a bitch as you have so proficiently demonstrated.


    Might I recommend aromatherapy or perhaps acupuncture to relieve pent up stress. Or perhaps a fatty blunt, everyone is more cheerful after a nice fatty.

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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    02/16/09

    In reply to Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 'Bots Can Spot Their Favorite Color
    Finally! Now I can have a robot seperate my M&Ms, as per the rider in my contract.
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