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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...

So last night I stayed up till 2:30AM to watch the NASA Live feed as Curiosity was doing it's remarkable landing on MARS... At the same time I was imagining how cool an NXTfied model of Curiosity would be!!  Well today I discovered that while I was just starting to think about it... a team of LEGO Robotics Expert where actually ready to show off their latest version! That's right, Doug Moran and Will Gorman were at the "Build the Future in Space" event at NASA's Kennedy Space Center with an awesome fully functional LEGO MINDSTORMS Curiosity model Check out the video of it in action: Little did I know, they did a presentation of this robot when Curiosity launched back in November 2011,  in other words, they have been working at this for as long as it took Curiosity to get to Mars!! go to Will's website to see more video and early prototypes of the LEGO MINDSTORMS Curiosity http://battlebricks.com/curiosity/ I really like how it turned out! Nice job guy...

Yesterday, the NASA has launched the new Mars rover Curiosity . The car-size robot spacecraft is the most sophisticated Mars space probe ever and expected to land on the Red Planet in August next year. For the launch event, MCP Will Gorman created a NXT model of Curiosity that was on display yesterday in Kennedy Space Center :

Hi everyone, my name is Will Gorman, and I recently joined The NXT STEP Blog to share with you some of the fun things that I and others are doing with LEGO MINDSTORMS. I'm one of the founders of BattleBricks , a group of guys who enjoy building competitive LEGO robotics. Over the years we've hosted many competitions, including Sumo, Team Combat, SoccerBots and much more. More recently, I've started building and publishing my own projects, random ideas that come to me here and there. Some of my robots include the WiigoBot , RoboFlush , an iPhone NXT Robot , and the MakerLegoBot . I enjoy sharing as much detail as possible for all the robots I create, including step by step build instructions . I'm very excited to become a member of The NXT STEP team, and will do my part to share with the world this great platform to create and build ideas and inventions!