ROBOTMAK3RS Blog

The Google Science Fair is already over and the winners have been announced at the  awards ceremony held   Monday, July 23rd, 2012  in Palo Alto, California!! LEGO, a proud partner of this awesome scientific event was present and brought along some cool MINDSTORMS robot for the finalists to play with.  Featured this year was the work of  Vassilis Chryssanthakopoulos better know to us as NeXTSTORM or the Crazy Greek Robotic Expert ;)  His Real Steel Boxing robots where there along with an army of "Muhammad Ali" (soon to be a bonus models available on the MINDSTORMS page).   He is also the brains  behind one last challenge for the finalists:  The Fusion mission: Leading scientist working for the United Nations have found out, that a fusion of selected rare metals can create a new substance and commodity that more than doubles the performance compared to using the metals individually. These metals have now been discovere...

They people over at LEGO have updated the MINDdroid app that allows you to control your NXT robot from any Android device. A few of the new features: Upload a program to your NXT from your phone, no PC needed! Control sounds and play music Get sensor readings converted through text to speech "What about doing xyz?" I hear you ask?  We no problem at all, they have also released all the code as Open Source, so if you're good with programming, you can dive in and modify to your hearts content! Open Source Software:  https://github.com/NXT/LEGO-MINDSTORMS-MINDdroid