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At TechnicBRICKs there is also some good information to be found with regards to the EV3. Here is a re-post about WIFI Dongles and EV3: (thanks Fernando) Similarly to what happened with BT dongles for NXT, there is a very limited choice regarding working WiFi dongles for EV3. Until someone changes something in the firmware/VM executable there is only one WiFi dongle that will work with the EV3. It is the NetGear WNA1100 (with USB ID 0846:9030). You can find these dongles at the moment at several sources, and eventually at your local retailer too. USA (19,95 USD) Amazon.com Europe (12,99 euro DE, 13,95 euro NL, 11,90 pound, UK) pixmania.com (select your country) then search for " netgear-wma1100 " USA (39,95 USD) LEGO Education (which charges a premium price for reselling this...) Unfortunately none of the small sized WiFi dongles in the market, or even any other large one like the NetGear dongle, will work! It has to use a specific Atheros chipset (one s...

Conchas at TechnicBricks has posted an excellent review of the new LEGO TECHNIC 8110 Unimog . It's the largest set in TECHNIC history. Find the review with plenty of pictures and videos here . The Unimog itself looks like a great model with lots of functions. And once you're done playing with the main model, it seems this set will be a very useful parts pack for your NXT robots...

This year, Fernando came over to visit LEGOWORLD and he brought a nice camera. Eric, Gerrit, Martyn and and friends prepared an MGBC setup for LEGOWORLD. And, what is MGBC, you asks. MGBC is an expansion (in the fully sense of the term...) from GBC concept and stands for "Much Greater Ball Contraption" or "MINDSTORMS Greater Ball Contraption". It uses MINDSTORMS balls at a much slower transport rate than standard GBC. About 2 balls per minute. See bellow one photo from the actual setup running at LEGOWORLD. Do you want to see more!? Ok, take a look to this post, today from 13:00 PM to 15:PM (GMT) to see LegoWorld MGBC in action, at TechnicBRICKs live video channel. Then it will be repeated Monday and Tuesday at the same hours (occasionally you may find it streaming at different periods). Live video on top and live chat room at bottom. Tell us what do you think. As alternative, you may follow it directly on this URL , or take a look at the original post in TechnicB...