How do you say hello with a customized LEGO robot? It's what this B3ta forum user has done. Built from scratch, the DIY Lego printer has been connected to an Apple Mac. The creator wishes to clarify that this has nothing to do with Mindstorms and that he built it all by himself with electronic…
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…
Robo-Rex is an invention from Alyse and Remi who shared their photos on Flickr. This is a robot dinosaur made of LEGOs. Their prototype was based on that superb futuristic German advertising from 2008, for the Saturn brand: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzd1OiP27s0 Other photos: via Fli…
Voix du Nord reports that teacher Olivier Cassez is going to participate in the Open International Championship in Taiwan with 8 of his students. This is the First Lego League which gathers participants from 60 countries and is an international contest where the aim is to present useful and cutt…
CubeStormer, based on Lego Mindstorms, solves a Rubik's Cube in just a few seconds. We've presented this great video creation of a Mindstorms NXT solving a Rubik's Cube using a Nokia phone. This time we've found even better with a speed record holder. Cubestormer is a real fighting machine. Crea…