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Today we have a guest blog by Cyrus Cuenca   Hello, my name is Cyrus Cuenca. I am 15 years old and have been an avid LEGO MINDSTORMS fan since late 2012. I got my first MINDSTORMS(NXT 2.0) kit on Christmas 2012, opened the kit the next day, and immediately started building the Alpha Rex model because, it "looked cool". I learned quite a lot as I constructed my first MINDSTORMS robot. When I finally got Alpha Rex working, I played around with it for an hour or two then deconstructed it and began experimenting and building my own robots. In 2013 I started my blog to document my creations @ The Teenage Maker . I continued to post my robotics creations on the blog (I still do) ,then I joined the LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Facebook group where I met a ton of awesome MINDSTORMS fans. I recently started my YouTube channel where I post videos for my creations. I hope that my work will inspire other MINDSTORMS fans like those who've inspired me. Recently, I complete...

Welcome, Dear Readers, in 2014. The NXT STEP has something nice for you yet: an EV3 machine by Daniele Benedettelli that makes small LEGO® ducks in random variations.

Daniele Benedettelli , Italian creator of many a great robot, has come up with a magnificent new one: LEGOnardo , a portrayer robot in the tradition of 18th century's drawing automats. LEGONARDO from Daniele Benedettelli on Vimeo .

Daniele Benedettelli, famous NXT dottore from Italy and creator of many cool robots, has completely re-designed his LEGO® MINDSTORMS web site. Amongst a heap of fantastic robot creations and links to his various books, you will find a short video  there; it not only reflects the self-assurance of a true NXT genius but also the achievements of 10 years of dealings with MINDSTORMS:

Creative robot builder Daniele Benedettelli has published a new NXT book: LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Thinking Robots . "The book will show you how to build and program two robots that think. You'll be awestruck when the TTT Tickler ties you at tic-tac-toe and amazed when the One-Armed Wonder solves a Rubik's Cube in just a few minutes. In addition to providing detailed instructions for building each model with either the original or the NXT 2.0 set, author Daniele Benedettelli takes you inside the robots to show you how they're designed, what makes them think, and how to use them." You can view an excerpt of the book here .

Last week, the renowned Scientific American magazine publised an interesting on-line article about a 12-year-old who built a NXT-based Rubik's Cube Solver, inspired by their father, an IBM research engineer. Also Daniele Benedettelli's amazing Lego Rubik Utopia robot is mentioned.

Daniele Benedettelli has set up a web page for the NXT Portrayer now that contains a lot of information on that stupenduous project of his, including the videos and some technical background.

MCP Daniele Benedettelli, creator of many intriguing robots, has published a preview on his book Creating cool MINDSTORMS NXT robots that is to appear in March 2008 at Apress. The Table of Contents looks veeery promising.