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Time Twister LEGO Clock Spends Most of its Time Telling the Time
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Programmer/Dad/Casual Mindstormer Hans Andersson has earned a reputation on the mean and geeky streets of the Internets as a LEGO Mindstorms master. His first two Mindstorms creations were machines capable of solving a Rubik’s Cube and Sudoku. His latest LEGO contraption has a much simpler task, but it goes about… |
October 28th, 2011
LEGO Robot Helps Test iPad Apps, Promises Not to Make Any In-App Purchases
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Developers, what do you do when you don’t feel like testing your apps yourself? You built a LEGO Mindstorms robot to do the job for you. That’s basically what researchers and developers at the Pheromone Lab did recently. Their LEGO robot helped them test an app by taking 10,000 photos… |
September 27th, 2011
LEGO Mindstorms Rig Copies Floppies
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Eli Carter’s grandfather was an accomplished nerd – he worked on software that was used on fighter aircraft, on the Apollo missions and even wrote the first software that could operate a nuclear reactor. When his grandfather passed away, Eli was tasked with archiving the 443 3.5-inch floppy disks that… |
May 9th, 2011
Lego Mindstorms Delta Robots Ready to Put Assembly-Line Workers Out of a Job
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Every time I think I’ve seen LEGOs pushed to the limit of their capabilities, somebody comes along and proves that there’s just that much more you can do with these incredible building blocks. In this particular case, we have a complex assembly line of robots built from only LEGO Mindstorms… |
April 23rd, 2011
LEGO Disc Thrower: Put Those Old Aol Discs to Good Use
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Here’s further proof that you can build anything out of LEGO. LUGNET member Philo made this awesome disc thrower a couple of years ago, and I think it’s still a fun project for LEGO enthusiasts since optical media is just getting more and more obsolete. Philo calls his creation the… |
November 29th, 2010
Geek Builds LEGO Mindstorms T-Shirt Folding Robot
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The most complex thing I ever built out of a set of LEGO bricks was a police station, and I did that following the directions. Real hard-core LEGO fans don’t need no stinkin’ instructions, and can turn their Mindstorms LEGO sets into robots that do things I won’t do for… |
October 11th, 2010
Great Ball Contraption is Boring and Mind-Blowing at the Same Time
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Here’s a nerdy a sub-genre in an already geeky genre: some Lego Mindstorms enthusiasts all over the world love creating Great Ball Contraptions, or GBCs – a large, modular machine that does nothing but transport balls in a never-ending route. A typical Great Ball Contraption has many modules, each one… |
May 30th, 2010
Beads and Bricks: Mario Hitting a Coin Block
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What can you do with a bunch of beads and a LEGO Mindstorms kit? Make a fully functional jumping Mario question mark block sculpture, that’s what.… |
March 30th, 2010
LEGO Mindstorms Robot Controlled by Tweets
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My brain is overloading with the coolness of this little LEGO robot. On top of being remote-controlled, NIKO can receive its commands via Twitter! Now that’s a cool use of social-robo-networking!… |
March 19th, 2010
