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more about #xprize phaota: 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 rol... more » frigg: I thought the idea for the original MoonBot contest was to send Hanson minifigures to the moon in advance of sending the brothers themselves? more » GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: So given the extremes of environment and radiation, how long would Legos survive on the surface of da moon? more » aerospaceman: cool, I love Mindstorm NXT. I might get involved with this challenge. more » -
#lego
MoonBots Challenge Lets Kids Simulate Lunar X Prize Landing—With Lego
A program called MoonBots will allow children to simulate the conditions of Google's $30 million Lunar X Prize—get rover to the moon, snap HD pics, kick ass—but turns up the quirkiness (and the cool factor) by incorporating Lego. More » -
#environment
X Prize's Call for Votes in Next Big Crazy Green Idea Challenge
The X Prize Foundation is looking for a new challenge for their next Energy and Environment prize, and they want Gizmodo readers to vote on it. The X Prize is an educational nonprofit prize institute dedicated to create radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity, like when Burt Rutan built and flew the world’s first private spaceship to win the $10 million Ansari X Prize. To propose the challenge for the next big crazy green idea, they have selected the best three from 133 videos: More »
