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The Seshan Brothers have done it again, this time they created a Xmas Edition of their famous PIX3L PLOTT3R printer.   That's the Seshan Brothers in minifig form ;) Not only does this version prints a selection of different holiday greeting cards it is also designed in festive colours,  using red and green LEGO elements from different sets combined with their EV3 sets.  Holiday Card Plott3r Automates Holiday Cards Another really cool thing, don't know if you noticed, is that even the markers are LEGO! Check them out on shop at home  https://shop.lego.com/en-US/LEGO-MARKER-9-PK-5005147 Close up of the LEGO Markers The project even ended up on the LEGO Group's Youtube channel. Check it out!! If you want to learn more about the technology behind this project head over to the Seshan Brother's GitHub directory front page   http://www.beyondtheinstructions.com/projects/ where you can find EV3 programs and much more. Al...

From everyone here at theNXTstep, we'd like to wish you, your friends and family the warmest holiday greetings. If you're taking some of this holiday time to work on an NXT, project let us know about it in the comments below. Happy Holidays and we look forward to bringing you more NXT goodness in 2013!

What says "Christmas" more than a NXTified Gingerbread Sleigh? :)

From everyone here at theNXTstep, we'd love to wish you, your family and all your friends a very Merry Christmas (a happy holidays for those of you who do not celebrate Xmas :D  ), and a Happy New Year. Thank you for being such loyal readers, and keep those tips and stories coming in! We're looking forward to an exciting 2012, bringing you the latest and greatest NXT creations from around the world.

Who said NXT robots and delicious Christmas treats don't mix?? Big thanks to Fredrik for sending us this!

Well, this video by people from the German roberta program is almost a year old already, but I detected it just now - and it perfectly fits the season:

I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas yesterday and you found lots of MINDSTORMS and LEGO stuff under the Christmas tree. We had a fabulous Christmas day yesterday - We started the day with the kids opening their presents... and watching the kids playing with the roller skates they got for Christmas and other cool toys while we stuffed ourselves with food and wine. The highlight of the day was giving all the kids their own NXT for Christmas: I have had enough of having a single MINDSTORMS NXT in the house shared between four people - and decided it would increase the peace and harmony in the house if every child had their own NXT. So for Xmas each of our children got one NXT, four NXT sensors each, and a selection of motors - including TECHNIC & PF XL motors, PF standard motors, remotes and power supplies. To top it all, we decided to have a building competition , where everyone get an hour to dream up and build a machine (with or without the NXT) and fight each other. To make i...

This is my last post before Xmas - and I hope you all have a safe and happy holidays. I will leave you with this excellent post on YouTube by OrganFairy from Denmark. Take it away Alpha Rex: Happy Xmas!