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They are here! 2008 Technic sets:

The long awaited Technic sets (see below) have finally arrived on LEGO S@H

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The guys over at TechnicBRICKs.blogspot also compared the prices of all these new sets for every country

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Austria	EUR	34,99	49,99	89,99	109,99
Belgium	EUR	34,99	51,99	82,99	109,99
Finland	EUR	33,95	69,95	99,95	121,95
France Metropolitan	EUR	34,99	59,99	79,99	109,99
Germany	EUR	34,99	49,99	89,99	109,99
Ireland	EUR	34,99	59,99	89,99	139,99
Italy	EUR	32,99	49,99	79,99	109,99
Luxembourg	EUR	34,99	51,99	82,99	121,95
Netherlands	EUR	34,99	51,99	82,99	109,99
Portugal	EUR	34,95	49,95	79,95	109,95
Spain	EUR	34,95	49,95	79,95	109,95
Denmark	DKK	249,75	499,00	799,00	899,00
Sweden	SEK	299,50	629,00	999,00	1.099,00
Switzerland	CHF	59,00	89,00	145,00	179,00
United Kingdom	GBP	24,99	39,99	59,99	89,99
Australia	AUD	49,99	79,99	129,99	179,99
New Zealand	NZD	49,99	99,99	149,99	199,99
Canada	CAD	39,99	74,99	109,99	149,99
United States	USA	29,99	59,99	89,99	119,99

I also noticed that Lego UK have lowered their prices for the snowmobile by £6 and the tractor by £12. looks like im going to be spending my birthday money after all!

Read more HERE

Follow the LEGO Brick Road Van Tour

Not strictly Mindstorms, but still lego, and British Lego at that!:

To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the LEGO Brick, visit the Follow the LEGO Brick Road Van Tour which is travelling across the UK from May to October 2008. Visit the tour and you can:

• Build part of a giant LEGO Mosaic!
• Visit a historic LEGO exhibition with toys from the last 50 years!
• Guess your height in LEGO bricks!
• Build some LEGO models!
• Enter cool competitions!
• Buy some hard to find LEGO items with 50% of proceeds going to support the LEGO official charity, the National Autistic Society!

You can visit the tour at the following locations on the dates shown.



LEGOLAND Windsor
2nd - 5th May
www.legoland.co.uk or 0871 2222 001

Urdd Eisteddfod, Wales
26th - 31st May
0845 2571 613

East of England Country Show, Peterborough
13th - 15th June
01733 234451

West End Live, London
21st - 22nd June
020 7641 3973

Farnborough Air Show, Farnborough, Hampshire
19th - 20th July
01252 532 800

Fringe Sunday, Edinburgh
10th August
0131 226 0026

Centre MK, Milton Keynes
16th - 24th August
0870 890 2530

Center Parcs, Whinfell, Cumbria
22nd July and 9th August
08448 267 723

Center Parcs, Sherwood, Nottinghamshire
24th July and 26th August
08448 267 723

Center Parcs, Elveden, Norfolk
27th July and 28th August
08448 267 723

Center Parcs, Longleat, Wilshire
29th July and 31st August
08448 267 723

Regent Street Festival, London
3rd September
020 7152 5854

You can read more about this HERE

Maker Faire 2008

I'm back from the Maker Faire! It was really fun, and I hope I can make it next year.
Anyways, I took some photos and movie clips there, and iMovie'd together a slideshow/video. It's mostly about the LEGO exhibit, but there is a bit of other stuff too.
Note: This does not cover the whole Maker Faire! There is way, way more than this. But most of the time I was looking at stuff and forgetting to take pictures, so this is what I have.

I thought that this site needed some new content, so I have recently become a member to Airkraft-NXTs blog, and Airkraft-NXT to mine. Lets hope there are many more posts and topics here,

RjbsNXT
rjbsnxt.blogspot.com

Golden Lego Bricks

As we all know, Lego turns 50 this year and to celebrate they've produced a bunch of "gold" bricks as a free gift with purchase of over $50.

The new set, "Town Plan" also includes three 2 by 2 golden bricks as well as a letter from company owner Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, who appeared on the original town plan box when he was much younger and returns on this one.

They've also produced a nice little anniversary site with a historical overview of their products.

You can read more about this on the Lego site

-Airkraft

NXTlog Biped Building Challenge

LEGO MINDSTORMS NXTLOG:
These robots are made for walkin'
Alpha Rex can't be the only biped you'll ever make, so we're asking you to create the NXT two legged walker! Bipeds are said to be the most difficult robot to make, but we know NXTLOGgers are up for the challenge!

All entries to NXTLOG fall under the Terms of Service
Entries must be submitted from Saturday March 1, 2008 - Monday March 31, 2008
All entries must be tagged "NXT200803"
Only LEGO elements may be used.

And of course all the other NXTLOG Challenge rules apply.

Lots of us have made bipeds, adn now is our chance to show them who's best!

Read More about thihs building challenge HERE

Forklift

Here's a great new project I just made: a forklift!

Two New Mindstorms Websites

I have reently been invited to join two new Lego Mindstorms NXT websites as a contributer and moderator.
These two websites are:

Travis' TeamNXT and Snowblader13's NXTCentral


TeamNXT has a Blog and a Forum





NXT Central also has a blog and a forum


Both Sites have great potential, and great contributers. We hope to be keeping all you mindstormers out there informed of events, shop offers, new videos, and just about anything else NXT from all over the world.


Airkraft-NXT

RealCar III

Here is the third incarnation of my rack&pinion cars...
See the other cars here.

This one can even be picked up without being dropped!

NXT Dot Matrix Printer?!?

I have just watched a video on youtube that shows a NXT robot using a felt tip pen to print a dot matrix (?) type image. The Video is called Lego Mindstorm, and the description is

113b Robot

Here is the video

Does Anyone have any information about this robot? it seems really cool
If you want to you can follow up this topic on my forum:
http://airkraft-nxt.forumotion.com/open-discussion-f1/video-with-no-info-nxt-dot-matrix-printer-maybe-t19.htm
Air

Farewell Crawler Crane!

The Crawler Crane Set 8288 has finaly been phased out of production here in the uk.
This is a sad day for me! I realy wanted this set, but it seams i shall have to buy it from somewhere else if i can find it.

If you know of anywhere that has any in stock, preferably in the UK, please get in contact.



Airkraft

PPS: Ping-Pong Shooter

This is a mobile, BlueTooth remote controlled robot. It has has a magazine of 7 ping-pong (table tennis) balls that it it will shoot if you press the bump sensor on the controller.

Now all I need is a 3rd NXT to fetch the projectiles!

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NXTMonger

Brand New RFID sensor (codatex)

Lots of people have made RFID sensors for the NXT, but at last, there’s an “official” third party product. LEGO has announced yesterday an official partnership with Codatex producing the NXT RFID Sensor seen below. The package contains a sensor and two tags, with holes matching Technic pegs.

Features:

• Reads 125 kHZ transponders of type EM4102
• 5 bytes number, i.e. 240 combinations (i.e. 1.099.511.627.775 numbers)
• The reader has three modes of reading:
  • Single read
  • Continuous read
  • Stop
• Reading distance up to 3 cm depending on transponder size and orientation
• Transparent front cap with LED signal at detection of a transponder
• Auto power off for saving battery power
• Firmware upgrade feature for future enhancements (saving hardware cost)

The press release can be found HERE

Buy your NXT now!

The following is from LEGO:

"Purchase 8527 LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT and receive an exclusive set of free accessories. Set includes one 9843 Touch Sensor, one 9844 Light Sensor and one pack of 8 Energizer Lithium AA batteries – a $50 value! Limited quantities. Offer good while supplies last. One free accessories set per order."

See it here

They Are Coming... 2008

What is there to look forward to in 2008? well, let me give you a clue:

"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one" he said...



Read more HERE