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Build a Mindstorm Robot to Fly to ISS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fleidermaus dept.

CodingFrenzy writes: "If you're over 18 and living in Germany, Switzerland or Austria (thats all in Europe) you can submit your best Mindstorm based Robot to a competition to fly to the ISS (this link in German). Choose any design you want: cleaning windows, space-ballet, etc. Include a gravity generator and you might even be able to use those wheels. Pack it into fur and give them a space-pet. What the heck, there's enough junk in space already..." If you win, let us know, we'll send you a t-shirt. :)

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  1. Re:Haha by larkost · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As a former exchange student to Austria from the USA, I can vouch for the fact that few Americans know the difference between Austria (small mountainous European country) and Australia (large continent sized country in the southern hemisphere). Before I left many of my (reasonably intelligent) friends honestly asked if I would bring them back pictures of Kangaroos...

    So... I came back with a t-shirt saying: "There are no Kangaroos in Austria". Whenever I wear it I get random people telling me that there, "are too Kangaroos in Australia". They usually have to read the shirt three or four times to see their mistake...

  2. Why? by gamgee5273 · · Score: 1, Interesting
    They're going to have those spiffy orb-camera-hover-bots (the Personal Satellite Assistant). How is a Mindstorms developer, even one programming in NQC or another of the other "advanced" Mindstorms languages, going to be able to impress anyone who has worked with the ISS thus far?

    Plus, how are the Russians going to get the infrared remote control to work from that far away?

  3. Wackiest Lego/KNex/Construx Creations? by __aaahtg7394 · · Score: 3, Interesting
    OK, this has inspired me to seek out the craziest, zaniest, wildest homebrew stuff made out of these. We all know about Lego Machine Guns, but how about a Homemade Ballpoint Plotter?

    with that in mind, what have you folks managed with legos?