Great news from NASA this morning, Curiosity Mars Rover has landed successfully. Our hats are off to the NASA engineers that made this happen! In celebration (or emulation?) the folks over at Battlebots.com have put together a fantastic model of the Mars Rover made entirely from LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT. More information and pictures on their website here.

The X PRIZE Foundation and the LEGO® Group announced today the 30 finalist teams from Phase One of the 2012 MoonBots: A Google Lunar X PRIZE LEGO MINDSTORMS® Challenge.

We recently came across a really awesome project using the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT and the Raspberry Pi: The PiBot Raspberry Pi NXT Robot.

Simon Burfield has made the world’s first working LEGO Wheelchair.  A fully life-sized wheelchair able to carry a 90 kg human, the chair uses 7 MINDSTORMS bricks and a ton of NXT motors and Omniwheels. Simon has some great pictures of construction and a few videos of himself

One of the most powerful aspects of RobotC is the debugger stream. You can easily debug complex programs with this function while programming. We've used this a lot in our WIFI programming, because it sends strings, rather than just characters.

Pretty cool Rolls Royce Jet Engine made of LEGO parts. Rolls-Royce this week unveiled the world’s first jet engine to be made entirely out of LEGO bricks. Farnborough Airshow was the selected venue for the unveiling of the model, which is made entirely from 152,455 standard LEGO bricks and parts, making it, Rolls-Royce claims, “one of the most complex...

Have you ever wanted to control your robot with your iPhone, iPad, or MacBook?

Ever wanted to control a robot with your web browser?  Dexter Industries has written an example and library to help you do that.  Now you can communicate very quickly, with a webpage, from anywhere in the world.  The new example software allows a user to dynamically control the robot from a webpage from a browser on a laptop, computer,...

Imagine . . . controlling your LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robot from everywhere in the world from any web-enabled device: PC, Macbook, laptop, Android smartphone, iPhone, or iPad. Finally . . . you can! Websockets are a way to communicate with webpages that allow you to send data back and forth to a server or another web-enabled device.  A lot of...

Recently Dexter Industries teamed up with the University of Arizona to bring solar powered robots to engineering teaching.  Students are getting hands-on learning experience in solar engineering using the dSolar to power their LEGO MINDSTORMS robots. A teaching concept that lets students power up Lego robots by retrofitting them with mini solar panels is making its way out of...