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(...) Another 3 hours and "Spike" is complete. "AlphaRex" and "RoboArm T56" had to be torn apart and rebuilt when later modules showed there was something wrong with the base. Both are about halfway done. The AlphaRex team was quite frustrated as (...) (18 years ago, 14-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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Another new week and a fresh batch of 9 kids in a Lego Team Challenge class. This class is setup to help individuals take on a First Lego League challenge. Starting from scratch, each student (ages 9 - 13) built a model of their choice. No one (...) (18 years ago, 18-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) A team building AlphaRex had torn down and rebuilt the right leg module twice. Finally, they asked me where they could have gone wrong. Twice now, the leg they built looked like the exact opposite of the finished module on the screen. Why had (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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At first I thought each student ought to have the experience of building each of the four models. It seems that having 9 kids choose one of four models and build it, saved us some time. They simply learned from each other's experience. Now they come (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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In article <J2q8sH.8Mq@lugnet.com>, gypsy_fly <e_pilobello@yahoo.com> wrote (...) I imagine that the building skills are quickly learnt, and that this would be rather laborious. (...) Cool. :-) (...) Excellent. (...) The most common usage is for a (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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In lugnet.robotics.nxt, Tony Naggs wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> (...) Though I don't know a great deal about the bluetooth part of NXT, I thought I'd respond quash the idea of the NDA being in effect regarding this. That isn't the case (we are still (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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In article <J2q8sH.8Mq@lugnet.com>, gypsy_fly <e_pilobello@yahoo.com> wrote (...) As of Friday I have a NXT Educational kit, and the software arrived on Saturday. (...) The NXT User Guide CD that comes with the Educational kit has document (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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In article <J2r7BH.31K@lugnet.com>, John Brost <john.brost@gmail.com> wrote (...) Hi John, that's good news. :-) Though it is not clear to me how to control the NXT over Bluetooth at the moment. Hopefully the publication in August of developer (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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Tony, (...) Presently, one could use Microsoft's Robotics Studio (see (URL) for instance) or NeXTTool by John Hansen (see (URL) Matthias Paul Scholz (18 years ago, 25-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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Hi Matthias In article <44C61288.5020004@in...ects.com>, Matthias Paul Scholz <matthias.scholz@int...jects.com> wrote (...) a Bluetooth connection, to communicate with the NXT brick. These programs indicate that it is possible, but I have not yet (...) (18 years ago, 25-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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