On 02/05/2012 a new robo-bingofied bonus model was released!
Now you can play bingo in a new way and with no risk of anybody cheating – only the Lotto Bot will know what the next number will be.
The Lotto Bot was designed and built by Eric Steenstra from the Netherlands. His idea originated from Anika Brandsma’s bingo duck that she brought to LEGO World in Copenhagen, in February 2012.
Get more information, NXT-G program and Building instructions here.
The ROBOTMAK3RS continued their celebration of the 25th Anniversary of MINDSTORMS through these Fall and Winter remix projects. Each ROBOTMAK3R was tasked with selecting one LEGO set of their choice and combining it with a MINDSTORMS set. Below are the five amazing models they came up with. Braill3 by Jerry Nicholls Braill3 is an EV3-based LEGO Braille bricks reader. This robot uses its fingertip, made from three touch switches, to read messages written using the LEGO Braille bricks and will speak out what it detected. If it sees a simple maths problem it will attempt to solve it and give the answer as well. To learn more about the process of creating this machine, read Jerry's blog . Braill3 can be viewed here . Set Review: The Braille Bricks set is well thought out. The ratios of the letters is suitable for general use and the addition of some punctuation and arithmetic operators is excellent. There is a card showing what bricks there are and their quantities, but no form of sort