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Robot localization with beacons 25 Aug 2013 | 02:05 pm
One of the most interesting challenges in robotics is the finding a solution to the question "Where am I?". Aswin Bouwmeester, the creator of the holonomic NXT robot Agilis, has published a robot that...
PSA: Issues with Some EV3 Battery Packs 23 Aug 2013 | 01:30 pm
Over the past few days I’ve seen stories regarding the LEGO Education EV3 Battery Pack circulating on the various forums and FB groups. Yesterday LEGO Education released a statement to customers and p...
The Kid with the Timmyton 3.5! 22 Aug 2013 | 08:21 am
Back in February when I was at FIRST I met with lots of bright kids at the MINDSTORMS booth but they where mostly asking me questions about upcoming EV3 and my WALL-E robots. The Next day I decided to...
Timelapse video on EV3 EV3RSTORM 21 Aug 2013 | 11:36 am
Damien Kee has produced a nice timelapse video on the new EV3 Home Edition, from unboxing to set to building, programming and running the flagship model EV3RSTORM:
Illuminating the NXT brick 18 Aug 2013 | 10:44 pm
Here's a guest blog post to The NXT STEP by Joshua "NXTesla" who's done some interesting stuff with illuminating the NXT brick: LEDs make everything cooler, right? Even LEGO MINDSTORMS? LEDs look pre...
Review on EV3 Education Edition on GeekDad 16 Aug 2013 | 06:37 pm
There's a new and quite positive review of the Education edition of LEGO® MINDSTORMS EV3 on GeekDad. Have a look!
ALL HiTechnic sensors are supported on the EV3 Brick 15 Aug 2013 | 07:57 am
today HiTechnic announced on their Facebook site: HiTechnic Sensors supported on EV3 The complete range of HiTechnic sensors and accessories are now fully supported by the new LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3. The...
How to Update your EV3 Firmware 13 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
The first EV3 Education sets are shipped, and like with the NXT, also now you can update the Firmware. Until the community created their own firmware versions and other update programs becomes availab...
EV3 Dolphin cruiser 12 Aug 2013 | 10:57 am
Anika Vuurzoon has published another one of her fantastic MINDSTORMS movies: this time it's the Friends set #41015 that has been upgraded by EV3 components and some dolphins.
Remotely controllable NXT camera rig 10 Aug 2013 | 05:53 pm
Leon Overweel, the creator of the robot that is handing out flyers, has come up with a new nice machine: a NXT-driven rig for panning and tilting a mobile phone's camera that can be remotelly controll...
