Mindstorms

WiigoBot: The Wii Bowling Lego Robot

We have featured a whole lot of Lego and Wii crap around these parts, but this has to be the coolest. Using the Lego Mindstorms NXT, the bowling WiigoBot was created. It can also bowl a perfect game (by cheating). Hit the jump to see a video of the WiigoBot in action. Be warned, the…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Mar 30

First Look: Lego Creator Monster Dino and Ferris Wheel

LEGO introduced its latest entries in the Creator series at Toy Fair. These use the same pieces and some of the sensors, gears and motors from the Mindstorms set, but don’t require an engineering degree to put together or any software skill to operate. Details on the crane, crocodile, and a photo gallery after the…

Gadgets Noah Robischon Feb 12

Lego Mindstorms NXT Update August 1st: More User Memory, UniBin for Mac

We’ve got it on good word that Lego will be releasing a new firmware version for their Mindstorms NXT robot kit that will “open up 60 to 80% more storage space” for user-made programs. (If you read our impressions of the Mindstorms NXT, you might remember that the low storage space and lack of expandability…

Tech News Joel Johnson Jul 5

Lego Mindstorms NXT Impressions

Although I received my Lego Mindstorms NXT kit in the mail early last week, it wasn’t until yesterday that I really had a chance to dig in, spending a whole day working through the included instructions. It’s difficult to completely review NXT in the entirety of its potential as it’s the first set of new…

Reviews Joel Johnson Jul 3

Lego Mindstorms NXT Shipping

I got an email last night saying Lego has shipped my Mindstorms NXT pre-order. Looking at the tracking number, I don’t think they’ve actually been handed over to UPS yet—probably tomorrow. Nevertheless, if you, too, pre-ordered the NXT set, expect to be building your first robots as soon as this week. I’ll definitely be doing…

Gadgets Joel Johnson Jun 25

Lego Coffee Maker

These kids deserve our love and respect. They not only made a Lego Coffee Making Think With Tubes and Stuff (TM), they also posed next to it, rocking the full science fair regalia. I have pictures like this in the family album—me hanging out with my Atari 800XL, for example—and I don’t look half as…

Gadgets John Biggs Jun 9

Lego Mindstorms NXT Software Going Open Source

Jon Lund took some time out from liveblogging the CustomerMade conference in Copenhagen to email in and tell us that according to Soren Lund of Lego, the software behind the upcoming highly anticipated Mindstorms NXT will be published as open source; Lego is currently in the last stage, figuring out which public domain license to…

Gadgets Gizmodo.com Apr 20

LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Pre-Order Starts April 1

You fans of LEGO MINDSTORMS had better mark your calendars for April 1, as that’s the date the LEGO Shop and retailers like Amazon, Target, Fry’s and Wal-Mart will start taking pre-orders for the new MINDSTORMS NXT. Pre-ordering is the only way you can be sure to get a box of the highly-anticipated NXT, even…

Gadgets Gizmodo.com Mar 22

Live From CES: Lego Mindstorms NXT

The latest and greatest iteration of Lego’s robotic toolkits debuted today at CES. The new NXT “brick” is a 32-bit microprocessor that can be programmed using a PC or, for the first time, a Mac. It’s Bluetooth enabled, which makes the instructions you plug into the LabView software easy to transfer to your bot, and…

Tech News Noah R Jan 5

WiigoBot: The Wii Bowling Lego Robot

First Look: Lego Creator Monster Dino and Ferris Wheel

Lego Mindstorms NXT Update August 1st: More User Memory, UniBin for Mac

Lego Mindstorms NXT Impressions

Lego Mindstorms NXT Shipping

Lego Coffee Maker

Lego Mindstorms NXT Software Going Open Source

LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Pre-Order Starts April 1

Live From CES: Lego Mindstorms NXT

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