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Mark Crosbie from Ireland, known for such great NXT robots like the Queboid and the Streetview Car ,  has published a new invention of his recently: the Sound Machine . It's a LEGO® drum sequencer that allows for "building" music with standard LEGO® bricks: The Sound machine is now even featured on the official LEGO® MINDSTORMS site !

Remember Mark Crosbie 's great Queboid ? He has published building instructions now for a shooter version of it (below, there's a  video of the Queboid shooter in action at WRO ). That's certainly one of the robots I am going to rebuild during Christmas holidays.

We are all familiar with what Google has done with the invention of it's Street View Car.. and we see the result each time we click on Street View* on Google Map!  Well Mark Crosbie has recently completed his latest version of the LEGO STREET VIEW CAR and it works pretty much the same way as the real thing...  Here is a video showing the history behind this project: Worth mentioning is that Mark and his LSVC will be present at the World Robotics Olympiad finals held in Abu Dhabi this year -- If you are a WRO finalist and will be present in AD this coming week, be sure to go visit The Robotics Experts booth in the main hall and check this cool Mindstorms creation in action. More detail on Mark LSVC can be found here: http://www.mastincrosbie.com/Marks_LEGO_projects/LEGO_Projects.html More details on the WRO can be found here: http://wroboto.org/en/ * Maybe one day we will be able to see LEGOLAND under Google Map's Street View mode!! :D

Update to our post to Mark Crosbie's LEGO® Street View Car: Mark posted a comment hinting to his web page that provides detailed information on the car. Have a look! There are many interesting details to be found, including a lot of pictures, program source code and another video :

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.