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

For all of you out there who cannot make it to Zwolle this year for LEGOWORLD 2012, Martyn and his friends are making us cool videos to share all we are missing in MINDSTORMS awesomeness!!! We can take it... bring on the next day!!  ps zWall-E says HI ;) Edit:  here is Day Two video, Film and edited by Jorin If any of you have videos of LEGOWORLD Mindstorms please let me know i'll add it to this post ;)

Are you ready? Tomorrow LEGOWORLD Zwolle opens the doors to the public And we are about to show you some awesome MINDSTORMS models. The Wheelchair , the Le-GoKart , Laurens Valk is happy to talk to you about his books, and you can ask Xander all sorts of difficult questions about your latest sensor. Over the weekend we will even have the Cubestormer II , the world record holder in solving Rubik's cube. and many more interesting robots, look for new posts every day. If you are visiting I'm looking forward to meet you. Martyn

Laurens Valk , author of the " Discovery Book ", has posted a nice video on his robots at LEGOWORLD 2011 just gone by:

Ricardo has published a video where he explains how his LEGO® vending machine works that can be admired presently on LEGOWORLD: Here 's another video with a detailed explanation of the inner details.

Last year I was extremely privileged to be able to attend LEGO World in Zwolle.  This year I am insanely jealous that I couldn't make it but luckily Xander has been taking plenty of video for us :) Matthias has already posted Day 1 (KiNXT sumo's are cool!)  but here is Day 3 and Day 4 (not sure what happened to Day 2.... will need to have a stern word to Xander!) Highlights for me from these videos were the NXT Blimp and Vending Machine.

Xander Soldaat has published a video on the first day of LEGOWORLD :

Only three days to go for world's largest LEGO® event: LEGOWORLD 2011  in Zwolle (Netherlands). Starting from next Wednesday, it will last no less than a complete week until 26th of October, providing LEGO of all kind by hundreds of exhibitors, building activities, shops and other spectacles for ten thousands of visitors. For a impression of how fantastic LEGOWORLD is, have a look at the various posts  on the event  The NXT STEP has published in the past. Do not miss it!

My turn to present you with a speedy video from LEGO WORLD -- A fantastic journey! I: /. 7.

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

Someone (willgorman on YouTube) has built a nice functional LEGO version of a rapid prototype machine. MakerLegoBot uses standard LEGO bricks to build small models one brick at a time. Inspired by RepRap & MakerBot, this is a fairly impressive implementation using 3 NXT's (yet still looking slim and svelte!). I don't even want to embed the YouTube video here, because a creation like this really needs a nice written description - which they provide over at BattleBricks . Take a look... and if you are going to Zwolle, this should be there as well! I wonder how far you could take this. A long time ago (OK, 2005), Ian Hendry of rtlToronto built an automated duck assembly robot that was really amazing. It only built one thing (LEGO ducks... but nice cute ones), but did it from raw pieces, not pre-built sub assemblies, and did it with a single RCX. More recently there was the automated car assembly robot , but it was huge and worked with pre-built assemblies. And there have bee...

The challenge was to remake Wall-E3 (the one that went to Atlanta for the FIRST World Championship earlier this year) but to use only Mindstorms this time! No Power function or 3rd party components!!  humm,   Well we all know the NXT Servo motors are 'huge' and only 3 can be plugged  per NXT... Conclusion?  zWall-E4! Tech. Spec.: 3 NXT bricks 8 NXT Servo Motors 2 Color Sensors (for the eyes) 1 Ultrasonic Sensor 4 Touch Sensors & Bluetooth was used to link all 3 NXT's via a NXT-G 2.0 program. OK so he doesn't transform (yet), but I'm still quite happy with the result. There is always room for improvement though :) I look forward to hear your comments. Hope you enjoy this short video and for those lucky to be there, make sure you come see us at the MCP booth at LEGO WORLD 2010 next week. I: /. 7.