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For a second year now LEGO MINDSTORMS was a sponsor at the World Maker Faire  event in New York at the  New York Hall of Science. They had a kiosk along Robot Ave, a nice corner booth nearby other robot kit manufacturers. Besides our community manager and Lee Magpili, that flew in from Denmark this year's team was composed of several MINDSTORMS experts from the community, LEGO Store staff from the area and had the pleasure to have Tim Courtney from LEGO Ideas joins us for the fun. Let me describe to you some of the amazing creation found at "our" kiosk! First off we had the amazing Wall of Fan a giant wall of fans that turn on as you walk by them. It about 8 feet high by 12 feet wide made from LEGO Technic and 15 MINDSTORMS brick. That wall has popped up all summer in New York and WMF15 was one of it's final destination for this year. For me it was the first time seeing it in action, pretty funny considering I was involved with the design and building it earlier th...

For those who want to use Eclipse , one of the most popular programming IDEs around, with Ralph Hempel's pbLua for the NXT, Ralph has published an according tutorial on the pbLua web site. If you are into a fast execution language for the NXT, give it a try (and, as usual, tell us about your experiences).