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The NXT STEP wishes every reader a Merry Christmas! As some sort of Christmas surprise, check out this awesome life-size LEGO® car , driven by a pneumatic engine:

Did you ever wanted to make a LEGO car that you can actually drive yourself? Eric , known from monster vehicles made a self propelled all LEGO car, big enough to carry a 40Kg (88 pound)kid easily. It is not glued real working headlights It is only using LEGO MINDSTORMS components for driving power. just amazing to see it drive If you want to see it, just plan a visit for LEGOWORLD 2012 .

Remember the post on Google Zeitgeist and Mark Crosbie's new NXT-based LEGO® Street View Car that briefly appeared there? Today I detected a video  by Mark on YouTube (actually, it's there since mid of May) dedicated to the car: The car is still a prototype, it says - I'm looking forward to actual images it is going to shoot.

I have posted a new Race Car design for NXT 2.0 and three remote control strategies to go along with it. This project was designed to look like a real car, steer like a car with pivoting front wheels, and go fast. It works best with remote control, but you can't control it with the built-in NXT 2.0 software remote control because of the way the steering works (nor very easily with the "nxt-remote" program), so I also posted three NXT-based remote control stategies: one wired, and two Bluetooth from a second NXT. Now I know that a remote controlled car is not exactly the most original thing you can do with an NXT set, but at some point you need to do one... This was actually one of the first designs I did with the NXT 2.0 set when it came out because the parts selection was screaming out "car" to me with the new car-like tires, but I am just now getting around to finishing it off and posting it. The 5 Button Remote Control (Bluetooth) was actually designed by m...

This simple NXT Steering Rover vehicle steers by pivoting its front wheels like a real car, and is controlled by a wired remote control. The remote control has a steering wheel to control the steering, and buttons to make the rover go forward, backward, slower, and faster. Two ways are shown to handle the steering. In the first method, the steering wheel on the remote control is used as an electrical generator to produce and send electrical power directly to the steering motor on the vehicle through a wire, without the NXT even being involved. In this mode, the steering even works when the NXT is off! In the second method, the steering wheel acts as a rotation sensor for the NXT, and the NXT then controls the vehicle's steering motor by program control through a different wire. In the program-controlled steering method, the steering motor on the vehicle is acting like a "servo" motor, which seeks out the desired position as determined by the other motor (the steering whe...