ROBOTMAK3RS Blog

For all of you out there who cannot make it to Zwolle this year for LEGOWORLD 2012, Martyn and his friends are making us cool videos to share all we are missing in MINDSTORMS awesomeness!!! We can take it... bring on the next day!!  ps zWall-E says HI ;) Edit:  here is Day Two video, Film and edited by Jorin If any of you have videos of LEGOWORLD Mindstorms please let me know i'll add it to this post ;)

Are you ready? Tomorrow LEGOWORLD Zwolle opens the doors to the public And we are about to show you some awesome MINDSTORMS models. The Wheelchair , the Le-GoKart , Laurens Valk is happy to talk to you about his books, and you can ask Xander all sorts of difficult questions about your latest sensor. Over the weekend we will even have the Cubestormer II , the world record holder in solving Rubik's cube. and many more interesting robots, look for new posts every day. If you are visiting I'm looking forward to meet you. Martyn

Xander made a nice post on his all new website , about the New RobotC 3.0 release. Many of you might know him as the creator of the driver suite for all the new (non LEGO) sensors in the RobotC platform. The new RobotC has many improvements, including an virtual test landscape. But that’s not all! Xander has 75 ROBOTC 3.0 annual single-seat licenses for the Mindstorms NXT platform to give away! (read the full article and instructions for requesting a license here . Martyn

Xander wrote: " Hi and welcome to the new site . No, I’ve not been hijacked, kidnapped or otherwise subverted. This is the new home for “I’d Rather Be Building Robots”. Since that whole sentence would make for a really terrible domain name, I did some brain storming for a new name and I came up empty. Good thing my dad was in the advertising business for 25 years in a past life and he came up with “ botbench.com ”. " He will keep us informing about the new and exciting stuff as he was before More interesting will be his all new Sensor Compendium . looking forward as the Go-To source for everything you wanted to know about sensors for the Mindstorms NXT platform and more . The old site will be set up to redirect to this one, so you should update your bookmarks, RSS feeds, etc. Some older posts may look a little wonky with the new theme but you’ll just have to forgive Xander for not going back over about 250 articles to check if they were OK.