Submit your pictures and programs

As you begin to receive your NXT kits, I hope some of you will begin to document your early designs and share them with all of us. Feel free to email me your pictures, screenshots, and .rbt files - whatever you can handle. Please don't send me videos as storage space is always a concern... instead, if you have a video that you absolutely must share, please email me with details first... but JPEG files and .RBT files I'll be happy to take and post.

Now, the small print: If you send me files, please give me written permission within the email to post and share the files on the blog. We also reserve the right to edit your commentary... space limits again, and sometimes spelling/grammar issues will need to be cleaned up.

I'm excited to have some more people with the kits in hand soon... more ideas, more bots, more experiments, more challenges, more troubleshooting, more theory, more of everything NXT.

Also, if any of you are going to be creating your own NXT blogs or websites, please let me know - I'd love to have more links on the right-side of the screen for readers to visit.

It's going to be a CRAZY time - the sheer amount of information, pictures, web content, programs, and other stuff might be overwhelming, so please be patient with all of us here at The NXT STEP as we sift through all the information coming our way... the original purpose (and continuing job) of this blog is to provide links to new information, websites, and other media sources... and we'll continue to do so along with our random bit of commentary, new discoveries, and miscellaneous projects.

Thanks to all of you for the kind words, the encouragement, and your participation in discussions... I never had any idea this blog would become such a fun (and apparently, popular) project to maintain... Brian, Matthias, and the others have brought their own ideas and the blog has really become a partnership.

Good times ahead...

Jim

Celebrating MINDSTORMS with a Remix - Part 3

The ROBOTMAK3RS continued their celebration of the 25th Anniversary of MINDSTORMS through these Fall and Winter remix projects. Each ROBOTMAK3R was tasked with selecting one LEGO set of their choice and combining it with a MINDSTORMS set. Below are the five amazing models they came up with. Braill3 by Jerry Nicholls Braill3 is an EV3-based LEGO Braille bricks reader. This robot uses its fingertip, made from three touch switches, to read messages written using the LEGO Braille bricks and will speak out what it detected. If it sees a simple maths problem it will attempt to solve it and give the answer as well. To learn more about the process of creating this machine, read Jerry's blog . Braill3 can be viewed here . Set Review: The Braille Bricks set is well thought out. The ratios of the letters is suitable for general use and the addition of some punctuation and arithmetic operators is excellent. There is a card showing what bricks there are and their quantities, but no form of sort

Celebrating 25 Years of MINDSTORMS

In celebration of the 25th Anniversary of MINDSTORMS, we take a trip through history. Please also visit ROBOTMAK3RS Community every week as we highlight different projects all through 2023 in celebration of the anniversary. Some of the early history is based on the content shared by Coder Shah in our MINDSTORMS EV3 Community Group . Some of the text and links may have been edited from his original posts for consistency and clarity. 1984 - Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen watched a TV program called "Talking Turtle," where MIT professor Seymour Papert demonstrated how children could control robot "turtles" using LOGO, a programming language he developed. 1988 - The collaboration between MIT and LEGO resulted in LEGO TC Logo in 1988, which allowed students to control LEGO models using computer commands. The video shows Papert demonstrating TC Logo. 1990 - LEGO TC Logo was hampered since the robots you built had to be tethered to a personal computer. LEGO and MIT

Celebrating MINDSTORMS with a Remix - Part 2

The ROBOTMAK3RS continued their celebration of the 25th Anniversary of MINDSTORMS through these summer and fall remix projects. Each ROBOTMAK3R was tasked with selecting one LEGO set of their choice and combining it with a MINDSTORMS set. Below are the five amazing models they came up with. Remote controlled material handle r by Jozua van Ravenhorst (aka Mr Jo) This remix combines the LEGO Technic Material Handler (42144) with MINDSTORMS EV3 (31313) It uses the power of pneumatic cylinders to move objects around. By using a bluetooth remote control, very precise movements can be made with this model. Touch sensors in the base chassis prevent the turret twisting the cables that go through the turntable to much. The program has several protections to prevent over pressurizing the system for each of the 3 individual pumps and valves that control the 2 booms and claws. The real version of this machine is mostly used in waste material sites to bring the material to machines that sort and

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