For all of those wanting to have a robot floor cleaner such as the Mint but not being able to afford such a luxury, there is always the choice of doing it yourself...with LEGO! Pulito, was built following precisely this spirit. The video below shows the robot navigating and cleaning around the hou…
Clinton Blackmore form the Southern Alberta Robotics Enthusiasts club put together some pretty neat software to control Lego NXT motors and sensors by using the Arduino microcontroller. Lego NXT robot Controlled by Arduino As shown in the video below, he is using the Mindsesors Multiplexer for NX…
We've already told you before about Lego Mindstorms robots which are able to solve a Rubik's Cube with ridiculous ease in record time, such as CubeStormer. This time, here's MultiCuber, the expert in Rubik's Cubes regardless of the number of faces. MultiCuber starts with a 2x2x2 and ends its exer…
The best Tetris players now have competition from this Lego robot that plays the Tetris game all on its own. Branislov Kisacanin has created a robotic player prototype with the help of Mindstorms parts, a webcam and a computer. A Texas Instruments DSP board (TI DM6437 DSP board) decrypts what happ…
You'll be surprised to learn that Twitter can even give instructions to a robot! The idea: users type specific commands on Twitter to the @n900niko account, for example of a computer, which are sent to a hacked Nokia N900 which retransmits the instructions to the LEGO Mindstorms robot. Nokia ca…
