It just seems just yesterday that WowWee was talking about the RoboRaptor, RoboPet, and RoboSapien V2, but now they're talking about the 2006 RoboSapien product line. PC Magazine and Pocket-Lint both have lots of pictures. ... the Robosapien RS2 Media introduces a USB port, LCD display on the che…
The popular educational and hobbiest company, Parallax is finally offering kits with USB support! The long-standing support of serial control in robotics and microcontrollers continues to be a problem, so it's good to see some of the larger players begin to make the change. It also looks like Para…
Brendan I. Koerner has an excellent article up on WIRED about the development of the LEGO Mindstorms NXT kit. It's a sneek peek at the February issue of WIRED, that will feature Mindstorms NXT. The article tells the story of how John Barnes, David Schilling, Steve Hassenplug and Ralph Hempel becam…
The other exciting news from CES, relating to LEGO's big announcement, is that they also want you, the Mindstorms fans, to help develop the product further. They announced, ... a call for entries to secure one of 100 seats on the newly expanded LEGO® MINDSTORMS™ Users Panel (MUP), an ex…
How do you improve something that's almost perfect? That remains to be seen, but LEGO is going to try with it's New Version of LEGO Mindstorms, the LEGO Mindstorms NXT! Tom Atwood, at Robot Magazine, was lucky enough to spend some time with Soren Lund and asking him about the new NXT (pictures and …
