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New Lego Mindstorms Dissected

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the go-my-robotic-army-destroy dept.

Turismo writes "The new Mindstorms NXT robotics kit from Lego is put through the ringer by the guys at Ars Technica, and they like what they find. From the article: 'the NXT brick can communicate with three other Bluetooth devices at any one time. This means that if you had four Mindstorms kits, you could create a mega-robot with four brains, twelve motors, and sixteen sensors — all of it coordinated through Bluetooth. The setup also works with cell phone and PDA Bluetooth systems, meaning that you can use your phone as a remote control or an output device.'" Update: 08/31 18:54 GMT by Z : Fixed absent submittor.

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  1. hunter warrior by legoburner · · Score: 5, Funny

    time to build a lego bot that uses bluetooth to hunt down and destroy people's ringing cell phones. Yay technology!

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  2. MS and Lego by CaymanIslandCarpedie · · Score: 5, Informative

    Besides it being MS here is a pretty awsome site for samples, references, and tools for playing with Lego MindStorm.

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  3. "The Ugly" by Veetox · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nate Anderson is right to an extent: Building with Legos as a kid involved so much of my time that I did actually eat less (and lose sleep on occasion). But if I could use those legos to deliver dinner to my room, I wouldn't be missing too many meals anymore...

  4. No death ray available by sjwest · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm waiting for the next release.

  5. Re:No thanks, Vex is more fun. by ConsumerOfMany · · Score: 5, Funny

    And I have a Lincoln log House attached to a Ti-85 calculator running Doom hooked up over Ultra Wide Band.....

  6. BrickLink for spare parts!:I'm curious what els... by hmbcarol · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://bricklink.com/ is sort of like ebay for LEGO. There are thousands of sellers around the world who buy Technic kits, break them down, then sell the parts. When you need exactly 5 of a particular gear it's a godsend. I built my Difference Engine using LEGO bought from various sellers there.

  7. Lego Robot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Check out this guy's lego robot, controllable in your browser. http://turbogfx.homelinux.org/legocam/ It's got a video feed and you can drive it all over his house.