pcmag.com has a video that (towards the end) has coverage of NXT. Unfortunately, it is at the end of a 61 minute long video and the fast forward button is almost useless. I just let the video run and checked back towards the end... it starts at the 53-minute mark and ends close to the 56-minute mark. During the 3 minutes of coverage, they show the Rex robot with some really good closeups AND you can hear the sound of it walking. Then they cover the slot machine and (on the 2nd attempt) the speaker gets all 3 blues and you see the door open up that gives candy. Very cool... video and sound are great.
In celebration of the 25th Anniversary of MINDSTORMS, we take a trip through history. Please also visit ROBOTMAK3RS Community every week as we highlight different projects all through 2023 in celebration of the anniversary. Some of the early history is based on the content shared by Coder Shah in our MINDSTORMS EV3 Community Group . Some of the text and links may have been edited from his original posts for consistency and clarity. 1984 - Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen watched a TV program called "Talking Turtle," where MIT professor Seymour Papert demonstrated how children could control robot "turtles" using LOGO, a programming language he developed. 1988 - The collaboration between MIT and LEGO resulted in LEGO TC Logo in 1988, which allowed students to control LEGO models using computer commands. The video shows Papert demonstrating TC Logo. 1990 - LEGO TC Logo was hampered since the robots you built had to be tethered to a personal computer. LEGO and MIT...