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LEGOWORLD Copenhagen will be open for public form 17 till 20 February 2011. Come and see some MINDSTORMS masterpieces. LEGO MINDSTORMS - Sumo challenge Test yourself with the many exciting LEGO MINDSTORMS challenges. You can both control the robots to secure victory, become MINDSTORMS SUMO winner, manage MINDSTORMS Monster chess and many other fun things at the booth. LEGO MINDSTORMS Movies Maybe even see your own movie! Experience the LEGO MINDSTORMS movies or YouTube movies on the big NXT with 40 "TV What else can you see at LEGOWORLD? Well look at this link ( EN DK ) Come and visit us at:

Today 20 October LEGOWORLD opened its gates for the 10th time. with some of the most inspiring models ever seen. here are some (poor Iphone) Pictures: Martijn Bosgraaf's factory that can build a car but also a house! A working Roller coaster, with 360 loop. The preparation of the MINDSTORMS area. Looking forward to see you all there! Martyn

What do you get when you make a room-sized robotic chess set based entirely on LEGO and unveil it at a major LEGO convention? A scheduling problem. Monster Chess went over wonderfully at Brickworld , drawing large crowds, playing multiple games, and winning acclamation & awards. It was so well-liked that LEGO requested it almost immediately... but other venues (such as Makerfaire in Detroit on 31 Jul & 1 Aug, 2010) had also already booked it. With a double-booked tour schedule, what's a Monster Chess set to do? Clone itself. LEGO was interested enough in having it at some events that they were able to dig up parts to make a copy of this huge creation. But with less than a week, the challenge was to assemble more than 73,000 individual pieces into a single master creation: no easy feat. So when a shipping pallet with 412 pounds of LEGO arrived at Steve Hassenplug's door, he did what came naturally to him: called on his friends. Over the course of the 17 Jul weekend,...

So there's been something in the works for Brickworld for some time now, and I thought I'd share it here (because, (a) I really want to, and (b) not everybody can make it to Brickworld , where it will be displayed). Steve Hassenplug has been working with a large group of folks to make a rather... big... robotic game. Tic-Tac-Toe & Connect-Four were impressive, but in the interest of something off the supersize menu, I give you... Monster Chess The idea is sim ple - a chess game where you can play against the computer. But the implementation here is what's truely monster about it. Each piece is its own autonomous robot, and there are actually a couple of 'spares' (as well as NXTs built into the King & Queen), so that ends up with 38 separate NXTs that must be controlled, commanded, and communicated with. Ron McRae did the bulk of the software work on the PC end for this, and it realy works well. The board has squares based on the large LEGO baseplates, makin...