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
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
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 RobotHere is the video
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:
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
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
Today I went to Milton Keynes (England) to see if they had the crawler crane in stock(as legoshop.com had run out, and I think it has been discontinued), and to my suprise, they actually had a sale on, ON DECENT SETS! Not just their crappy stuff. Sadly there was no crawler crane, but they did have the TIE CRAWLER and BATMOBILE sets (both with LOTS of caterpillar tracks) for only £28! (normally £40) So I bought a Tie set, as well as a selection of technic beams and lift arms.
Then as i was leaving the shop, I noticed that ALL MINDSTORMS ACCESORIES WERE HALF PRICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Sadly, I had just spent all the christmas money I had brought with me, so I didnt get any. Hopefully when I go a week next tuesday, they will still have the discount. If not, i think i may have to eat myself.
I got two more points on my loyalty card today though, so that was good.
And so, the moral of this story children, is, IF YOU LIVE NEAR MILTON KEYNES IN ENGLAND, GO BUY SOME LEGO!
Merry Christmas by the way!
Airkraft-NXT
A few weeks ago 222doc posted a video to youtube showing his Tilt-A-Ped. This was his entry at nxtasy#4.
Tilt-A-Ped is a weight shifting bi-ped that uses two light sensors to follow a black line.
The nxt brick shifts left to right and right to left, and at the point of inbalance it teeter-totters at the ankles, then one of the two leg motors rotate as needed.
The brick is modular, and can easily be removed.
Below is 222Docs video of it in action.
A few days later he posted another video showing Tilt-A-Ped's mechanical features overview
Hello Everyone!
Airkraft nxt has invited me to join this blog, so here I am! My name is NXTMonger, and you can contact me at my other blog, NXTMonger's World, or by e-mail at nxtmonger@gmail.com.
OK This is it! My first of many blogs.
A few quick announcements to make:
