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November 29, 2006

 

NXTasy Challenge No. 1

It's a bit late to design and build a solution, but
for future reference, take a look at the first
NXTasy challenge
.

A good challenge, and the author obviously thought
quite a bit about the rules!

November 28, 2006

 

NXT Videos

Since I haven't had much time for building lately, I thought I'd post
some links to nice NXT videos.

I've built a simple copier machine with the old Mindstorms. Here's a very nice plotter for the NXT: Click to watch.

A decent car that turns. Don't know why he added the music, though.
Click to watch.

Nice differential gear. Would be nice to see instructions for it. Click to watch.

This one has promise... Click to watch.

In the medieval weapons category we have ... Click to watch.

This motor-to-motor trick was always a fun demonstration with the old Mindstorms kit. Here we see it works with the NXT, too. Click to watch.

And here is my favorite NXT video! Click to watch.

Enjoy! Post a comment to say which is your favorite.

November 03, 2006

 

Bluetooth - Working for you?

Sorry - haven't had much time to build or blog.

So I'll post a question for you. Please answer with a comment...

If you have an NXT set and a Bluetooth device, can you get the two to talk to each other from the Lego NXT software ("NXT-G")? If so, please list the version of Windows or Mac you are running, and the type of Bluetooth device (with exact model number if possible). If you had to do something special to get it working, I'm sure the other readers would be interested to hear about it.

For me, the answer so far is no. I did get a very lengthy set of instructinos from someone (over 20 steps!), but haven't had time to try them yet.

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