ROBOTMAK3RS Blog

Using the missions from this year's FLL challenge, Climate Connections, solve them and enter your robot in this NXTLog challenge. Don't have the missions? Make up your own, and build a robot to complete them! Full details: http://mindstorms.lego.com/nxtlog/ProjectDisplay.aspx?id=b1c98d61-dd7c-49bc-83c7-f77ac83bc062 Enjoy and good luck! Richard

Technobotts³ Preparation for the UK Final This year the Technobotts3 FLL team had a fairly successful regional heat, they walked away with two trophies: Robot design award and 2nd place overall. With 280 points they had qualified for the UK finals in Loughborough. Encouraged by the unreliability of their old robot, the team voted for yet another total redesign. Although this may sound a bit risky, they had also done it two years ago before the finals, to great success. So it came as no great surprise that the first ever practice run with our new robot achieved a score we were aiming for 400! And here's the video of us getting 400 in only 130 seconds. Well done !! (Origional post by NXTBoy) martyn

Saturday 31 January in Utrecht was the Dutch FLL Final, in total more then 250 teams competed and over 2500 visitors were present. The polar bears from Hillegom won the first price, and are invited to go to Atlanta. The below team (windkracht zeven also form Hillegom) won the second place and with that a ticket to the Open European Championship in Kopenhagen (DK) in May. The team that won the third place (WereldWierdeWijs from Almelo) will have their project worked out in real. Team watt build this impressive robot that could do all but 3 missions! This robots was featuring a real interesting principle called MOT, (Main On Top). They say that removing and attaching parts during the game costs precious seconds, this robot has one part that can be swapped within a split second It might be the difference... (Two members of team Watt, and their robot) MOT motor and NXT, this unit can be pulled and placed in all their base robots. Here is a movie on how to do the full house mission. I e...

As usually after the end of the regional finals, the FLL commitee has announced the topic of next season's FLL competition: Climate Connections Citing from the German FLL site : Climate Connections - Building A Global Game Plan The "winds of change are blowing" and with them comes FIRST LEGO League's 2008 Climate Connections Challenge! Join us as we explore why many experts believe the earth's climate is changing and how these changes impact you and our planet. The causes, contributions, and consequences are all interconnected and the experts are telling us to "think globally - act locally." People, resources, and local actions need to be united to establish a global game plan. Do FIRST LEGO League teams have what it takes to make these global Climate Connections? Registration will start on 1st of March.