ROBOTMAK3RS Blog

Last month I blogged about the new Black NXT that LEGO just launched in USA and Canada. If you are lucky enough to live in North America, you can still order them - there are still a few left from the Limited Edition run of 1998 units. I got mine recently - and I decided to build the Bike from the One Kit Wonders book: I used black pieces instead of the white and grey pieces that comes with the standard NXT kit. The black bike looked stunning. I thought it will be cool to have the Black bike and the white bike running at the same time.  More to follow: The NXT bike can be built with pieces from a single NXT  (Retail) kit.  Building instructions for the bike can be  found on last chapter of the LEGO MINDSTORMS One Kit Wonders   book that was published a few months ago.. The book also has 9 other really cool models - some of them written by contributors to this blog including Jim, Chris, Matthias, Martyn, Jonathon, Eric, Laurens, and myself. You can get the book from here . If you want ...

The "No Starch Press" web site has posted an excerpt from the new book, "Mindstorms NXT One Kit Wonders". The excerpt features an NXT bike that can steer and move by itself, designed by NXTstep blogger "BlueToothKiwi". The bike can be built from one NXT retail kit. The direct link to download the excerpt is here .