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Master the grammar of NXT-G and build a ScanBot

LEGO and National Instruments designed the computer language NXT-G to explicitly run on a toy, but that doesn't mean it's "just a toy" or that it can't be used to write "real" programs. There is a lot of power under the hood in NXT-G. In this chapter download...

Tags: LEGO Co., Lego Mindstorms, NXT-G, Chapter Coverage, Robots, Blogging, Advertising & Promotion, Productivity, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Marketing

Book chapters 2007-10-04

Teaching Students Java Bytecode Using Lego Mindstorms Robots

Assembly language is a valuable subject to teach, yet one of the most underappreciated by students. Students do not see the need for assembly language and they get through it as quickly as possible. Given the time in a computer organization course to teach assembly language, assignments - either quick-and-easy...

Tags: LEGO Co., Lego Mindstorms, Saint Joseph, Assembly Language, Robots, Programming Languages, Java, Productivity, Emerging Technologies, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2006-09-05

PicoCricket: Mindstorms for younger kids, girls

Lego Mindstorms offers amazing robotic programming experiences for kids, but the perception among adults and children is that they're a "boy toy" - perhaps because they're really geared to tweens, an age at which girls start to fall away from many things math and science. Playful Invention Co,...

Tags: Robots, PicoCricket Kit, Lego Mindstorms, LEGO Co.

Blog posts 2006-08-29

MSDN Webcast: Robotics: Programming Lego Mindstorms Using Visual Basic 2005 Express (Level 100)

LEGO MINDSTORMS has been a popular introduction to PC-programmable robotics for nearly seven years. This webcast explains how to easily create exciting, interactive robotics programming projects using the new Microsoft .NET interface for MINDSTORMS with Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition.

Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Robotics, Webcast, Microsoft Visual Basic, LEGO Co., Microsoft Corp., Programming, Lego Mindstorms, Robots, Emerging Technologies

Webcasts 2006-05-10

Photos: Building blocks for bots

Lego's Mindstorms NXT may look like a kid's toy, but it's actually a robot development kit.

Tags: toy, LEGO Co., bot, robot, Lego Mindstorms

Image galleries 2006-03-07

Photos: Building blocks for bots

Lego's Mindstorms NXT may look like a kid's toy, but it's actually a robot development kit.

Tags: toy, LEGO Co., bot, robot, Lego Mindstorms

Image galleries 2006-03-07

Photos: Building blocks for bots

Lego's Mindstorms NXT may look like a kid's toy, but it's actually a robot development kit.

Tags: toy, LEGO Co., bot, robot, Lego Mindstorms

Image galleries 2006-01-06

Lego Mindstorms no kids' toy

Lego Mindstorms no kids' toyWhere's the link? Where's the link!?!First you tempt us with the Mindstorms competition, and then you don't even link to it?Try looking at...http://mindstorms.lego.com/ZDNet *NEVER* provides links...I've noticed that ZDNet [b]NEVER[/b] links to anything. It must be their policy to make sure that nobody ever...

Tags: Lego Mindstorms, LEGO Co.

Discussion threads 2006-01-06

Additional Resources

Photos: Robots make themselves at home

From the Roomba to Lego Mindstorms, and from living room to garage, robot technology is becoming integrated into our day-to-day lives. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, Robots, Emerging Technologies, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-05-27

PBrickLib 1.0 (Mobile)

The PBrick library provides a API for bidirectional IR communication between the palm computing platform and the lego mindstorms RCX controller. Possible applications for this library range from simple emulation of the lego remote control to lego robots extended with an on-board palm device using the RCX as an intelligent...

Tags: Mobile, IrDA, Till Harbaum, PBrick Library, Palm OS, Robots, Operating Systems, Software, Emerging Technologies

Software downloads 2008-08-11

Personal robots to generate $15 bln by 2015

ABI Research forecasts that personal robotics market will be worth $15 bln by 2015. The entertainment robotics market saw blips like the low-cost Furby in the late 90’s and the expensive AIBO in the early 2000’s, and is now dominated by WowWee, but the emerging Ugobe (with its Pleo pet...

Tags: Robotics, Robots, Emerging Technologies, site admin

Blog posts 2008-01-07

Remember LOGO? It still lives at 40!

Remember LOGO? It still lives at 40!Wow, 40 years!My memories of Logo are pretty much the same as the author of the Wired piece. But Logo is clearly showing its' age, especially in the face more modern replacements like Squeak. Still, it serves nicely as a very basic introduction...

Tags: Development tools, Games, programming, Remember LOGO

Discussion threads 2007-10-17

Microsoft unveils public robotics software

Microsoft unveils public robotics softwareThis is great news.I expect robot technology to skyrocket now.This will give new meaning ...... to BOTNETS!! HA! Sorry, couldn't resist.Picture all the hacked, trojan infested bots running amok, killing everything in their path ... oh the humanity!!This changes everything...First and foremost, this probably...

Tags: Robots, Linux, Web browsers, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., robotics, robot, robotics software

Discussion threads 2006-12-13

We need more programmers

We need more programmersHead Rush AjaxI haven't read Head Rush Ajax, by Brett McLaughlin, but Head First Java, by Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates, the first book in this O'Reilly series, was the most engaging, fun and useful introductory programming book I've ever read. If I wanted to learn...

Tags: Development tools, programmer, AJAX, programming, computer, job, software engineering

Discussion threads 2006-09-05

CMU and Lego put advanced robots in Pa schools

Are you ready for the four Rs of education - reading, writing, ritmatic and robots? In Pittsburgh and southwestern Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon is teaming up with Lego Education to put robot-building programs in over 60 schools, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. "The goal here is using the motivational...

Tags: robot

Blog posts 2006-08-10

The programming imperative

Some say that traditional forms of education are moribund and outmoded. And Wesley Fryer, in his Tech Learning blog is not breaking new ground here by proclaiming that all students need a "basic understanding and practical knowledge of rudimentary programming." We have such faith in the value of...

Tags: programming

Blog posts 2006-07-10

Lego opens up Mindstorms NXT firmware

Lego opens up Mindstorms NXT firmwareLegos made me and engineerLegos frickin' rule. Maybe toys with microcontrollers will get the US out of our current educational/engineering slump. Or maybe they won't sell because the kids are too lazy... we'll see.

Tags: MINDSTORMS NXT, Legos, LEGO Co., firmware

Discussion threads 2006-05-03

Microsoft drops plan to charge for Visual Studio Express

Dan Fernandez, project manager of Visual Studio Express announced this week that VS Express will be free permanently. VS Express editions are light-weight, easy to use versions of Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE designed for hobbyist, novice, and student developers. Dan writes: Prior to...

Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Visual Studio Express

Blog posts 2006-04-21

Personal Robots in LegoLand

Could one product turn around the fortunes of a company that has been struggling?If you’ve been following the personal robot space—perhaps an aficionado of the TV show RobotWars, or the proud owner of a Sony Sebo or dependent on Roomba—you’ve got to feel a thrill at the news that Lego...

Tags: robot, LEGO Co.

Blog posts 2006-03-08

Photos: Building blocks for bots

Photos: Building blocks for botsBotsWe have had Lego Mindstorms Robotic Invention in our house for years. My oldest has been doing that for some time. Not new news.

Tags: bot, photograph

Discussion threads 2006-01-07