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Make: Lego and Arduino Projects: Projects for extending MINDSTORMS NXT with open-source electronics 6 Jun 2013 | 07:19 pm
Just before Christmas I received this fantastic book and over the last few months I have been making my way through it. I think this is the number 1 book if you are coming from a LEGO MINDSTORMS backg...
LEGOWORLD 2013 Copenhagen Highlights 4 Mar 2013 | 01:46 pm
So this year I got invited to show the LEGO Wheelchair at LEGOWORLD in Copenhagen as part of the LEGO Mindstorms EV3 display. It was a fantastic event and our stand was hugely popular. The LEGO Whee...
Burf is off to Copenhagen tomorrow for LEGOWORLD 2013 13 Feb 2013 | 06:25 pm
Woo-hoo, the LEGO Wheelchair and I will be at LEGOWORLD in Copenhagen tomorrow for the 4 day event on the Mindstorms display. If your at the show, please say hi, if your thinking of going, GO! There w...
Lee Magpili, lead designer of the LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 at the BETT show. 4 Feb 2013 | 09:36 pm
I was lucky enough to bump in to Lee at the BETT show in London. This is a 4 day massive education show held at the EXCEL center. Here is a very cool video of Lee showing us some LEGO EV3 models. I ...
Burf supports MakeBlock! 13 Jan 2013 | 04:09 pm
MakeBlock is an aluminum robotics kit powered by the Arduino. I first saw it on Kickstarter and was instantly interested as it is possible to use it with LEGO. This is the first Kickstarter project ...
LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 ANNOUNCED! 8 Jan 2013 | 03:15 am
Well people, today is a great day for LEGO MINDSTORM fans, the next generation of the LEGO MINDSTORMS set has been announced and looks flipping awesome! I have known about this for a little while bei...
HiTechnic SuperPro Review 29 Dec 2012 | 03:34 am
Just before Christmas I received the HiTechnic SuperPro Experimenter’s Kit and the HiTechnic MiniScope. I was lucky enough to get some time over Christmas to have a play with the SuperPro and really ...
Raspberry Pi and the LEGO NXT 29 Dec 2012 | 02:56 am
For Christmas my lovely wife got me a Raspberry Pi Starter Kit. I wanted one of these since I saw that people had made it control an NXT via NXT-Python. I thought that it would be cool to do the same...
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 24 Dec 2012 | 03:06 pm
Hey everyone, thought I would do a quick post and wish you all a great safe Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I hope you all get some quality time with your friends and family and I hope 2013 bri...
Christmas comes early at the Burfield household! 14 Dec 2012 | 10:28 pm
So Christmas has definitley come early this year for me and has come in the form of 3 wise companies! The first of these was HiTechnic.com who sent me a SuperPro Experimental kit AND a MiniScope. Bot...
