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Hi, A lot has happened, in the last two months. If you are linked to The MINDSTORMS EV3 Facebook page , you already saw nice things, form the Maker fair NY, and LEGOWORLD in Utrecht (the Netherlands). Here are some videos: A robot shark at Maker fair NY., by Kyle. Andy with his Minecraft CREEP3R a LEGOMakerBot 3D printer by Will, it can print with 2 by 2 bricks, how cool is that!. a cool, fun, GoPro robot by Benjamin Bazmark with a nice overview and his R2D2. LEGOWORLD 2014 Utrecht, the Netherlands, an overview Anika made a nice shark Victor made also a cool video: And some pictures of taken at LEGOWORLD 2014. With about 82000 visitors, FLL, moonbots team dutch delta, and teachers of the Libanon college form Rotterdam trained over 700 kids (and some adults) on how to program a EV3 robot. Matthias brought a nice set of robots from his new upcoming German book, and Laurens had his robot form the EV3 discovery book on show. I also showed the poli...

Here's a guest blog entry by the guys of Sioux .NET on Track : Sioux .NET on Track is a group of enthusiastic software engineers who come together after working hours to get more experienced with the Microsoft.NET technology. To make learning fun, they develop an application in C# and WPF for making a full automated Lego train, using Lego Mindstorms NXT, Lego Mindstorms EV3 and Lego Power functions. The full automated train layout will be displayed for the third year at Lego World 2014 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Each year, they try to outdo themselves with more functionality and impressive techniques. For this year, the visitor (from age 4 to 99 or even older) can shoot a colour (red, green, blue, yellow) at the so called PUI Receiver. PUI is an abbreviation for Physical User Interface, according to Sioux.NET on Track this may be the new standard in usability after the touch screen J. The PUI shooters are build around two PF remote controls (art. 8885). After the visito...

LEGOWORLD , the world's biggest LEGO® Community event, is running in Utrecht since last Thursday, and of course there's also a lot of EV3 MINDSTORMS to be seen there. One of the amazing creations is a gigantic MINDSTORMS packaging line created by Martyn Boogarts, Eric Steenstra and Gerrot Bronsveld:

And here's another video on the LEGOWOLRD 2012 which takes place presently in Zwolle, filmed by Anika and Jorim from the MINDSTORMS booth:

Here is the official video featuring NeXTSTORMS Boxing Robots filmed at LEGO WORLD Copenhagen 2012 In this excellent video you will see the original Real Steel Robots that where first seen in Abu Dhabi WRO event video but pay close attention and you will notice 2 Mini Boxing Robots as well as A One Kit version named "Muhammad Ali" that you will soon be able to build once the BI get published! <p>As<br></p> I've pasted below some technical details as found in the show more info of the video: Real Steel Robots: Each robot set (the boxer and its controller) is consisted of 4 MINDSTORMS NXT Intelligent Bricks, 7 NXT motors, 2 light sensors, 3 color sensors, 9 Touch sensors, 4 rechargeable batteries, 1 HiTechnic Acceleration/Tilt sensors, 1 HiTechnic Sensor Mux, 10,25 meters of NXT cables. The black Mini Boxing Robots are controlled over Bluetooth by ultrasonic-based controllers. Each mini robot s...

A few more videos from LEGOWorld Copenhagen.  Thanks to Menno and Robotica for finding them.

I was lucky enough to spend yesterday at LEGO world here in Copenhagen and got to catch up with some amazing builders. Here is  very quick video I've put together to give a bit of an overview of the MINDSTORMS area.

One of the largest LEGO events in Europe starts today: the LEGOWORLD Copenhagen . Until Sunday, there will be plenties of exhibitors showing off their LEGO® creations to the visitors. Also a lot of mind-blowing NXT stuff is to be expected again this year. So in case you happen to be around Denmark or plan to go for a short-trip to Scandinavia - drop by! We will try to get some on-site videos and reports from our friends being there.

NeXTSTORM , Greek creator of many a fascinating LEGO® model, has published a new movie , this time on Kevin Clague 's stunning pneumatic robots that could be seen on LEGOWORLD 2010 :  

Welcome to LEGOWORLD, Copenhagen, 18 to 21 Feb 2010. Demo and explanation on what MINDSTORMS. You can build and program your own robot. Now don't you want to be a MINDSTORMS AFOL (adult fan of LEGO) ? ALPHA REX The MINDSTORMS Development team is here to talk to you. Brick-it build a nice forklift model The warehouse. You can win a NXT 2.0 box. You can win this brick. There are still 2 more days to go.... See you there, Martyn

Back in October, there was a post here about the incredible Lego Mindstorms High Bay Warehouse .  Joe Meno has posted an incredible video of the warehouse in operation at LEGOWorld Zwolle in 2009.  Incredible stuff, and I think we all want to see more video!

Today LEGOWORLD in Zwolle (the Netherlands) starts. We will be showing an automated highbay warehouse with over 25 NXT's. build and designed after the real version that LEGO has to store all their bricks. Hope to see you there, come visit us in the main LEGO hall. Martyn

At this moment; Thursday, Friday and Saturday are completely booked out! There are still tickets available for Sunday 25, Monday 26 and Tuesday 27 October. visit your Intertoys LEGO shop or www.legoworld.nl to buy a ticket for LEGOWORLD. Martyn

LEGOWROLD 2009 the biggest LEGO event in the world, starts on Thursday, 22 October 2009, if you still want to visit you will have to purchase tickets on-line, or in the Intertoys (a dutch LEGO shop), you can not purchase them at the entrance! look at http://legoworld.nl/english for more information. During this show we will be present with a large MINDSTORMS stand, for all your questions. Martyn

Today was the first day of LEGOWORLD 2008 . At the MINDSTORMS booth we had a visit of Søren Lund (former Marketing Director MINDSTORMS), and I could show him and his family: The NXT-sans (an underwater excavator build for NI-week). We displayed it inside a large tank of water. (do not put motors or other electrical LEGO parts under water at home!) Also an almost 3 meter high ferries wheel, as part of a MGBC (Much Greater Ball Contraption= GBC with MINDSTORMS balls), the balls are first put in a basket that is picked up by the wheel, for a round, to clear out the basket at the other end. There the balls continue their journey in a train. Most of the books (including a pre-press version of the One-Kit Wonders ) are available for a look inside, and several models can be seen in real live. You can play with the new WEDO form LEGO Education. Various line followers are shown, and a copy of Steve’s Hassenplugs P-Sumo . See you there... Martyn

LEGOWORLD Norway is today for the third day open, I welcome you all to join us today or tomorrow in Oslo. (see www.legoworld.no for details) We have a really large MINDSTORMS stand, showing a lot of NXT and RCX models , but you can also play with many bricks, view models from the past, buy new boxes, and several nice goodies. Regards Martyn

Now that I'm back from Holland, I have assembled a slideshow video with some of my images from the LEGOWORLD 2007. I hope you enjoy it.

Sunday on LEGOWORLD - one could guess that this is one of the days where people are virtually flooding in. The Billund MINDSTORMS guys (Chief Steven, Technical Brain Flemming and Top Designer Joern) are off again for Denmark and have left not only some nice bags on our booth but also a lot of ideas for the future in our brains. Thanks to them again for their generosity. :-) Daniel Wittenaar spontaneously made an NXT ape that clawed his way over their booth. Intriguing! Sadly, my Zamor shooter that I built this morning to terrorize them did work quite well, but didn't make it over the distance. Have to work on that, though... ;-) Ah yes: we sold all our copies from the Idea book. Enjoy the pictures from my last day here - I'm positive that I'm going to feed on this experience for a considerable time. Images (from top to bottom) Noteworthy things about the Bowling Lane Building contest winners The Bowling Lane in action Trains, trains, trains! Part Vultures The production...

Wow, this has been a most memorable day on LEGOWORLD 2007 so far - masses of visitors and everywhere LEGO (R) builders discussing, building, presenting, inventing... an enormously creative and inspiring ambience. Amongst a lot of other things, I noticed that Martijn not only is an outstanding builder but also a very skilled salesman of the Idea book... ;-) Now the visitors are all gone, and the exhibitors' dinner is going to start soon - Steven is inviting the MCPs somewhere (and Martijn cares for the location). Let the images speak for themselves.