What's Moonbots 2012 all about? Here's a quick video . . .

Mark at Mastincrosbie.com has just released a leJos class for the NXTBee. The new class makes it easy to integrate wireless communications with the NXTBee into your LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT project.

Ditemar writes to us about his teams recent victory in the Austrain RoboCup Junior Rescue Competition. Pictures and videos!

Now one of our favorite software systems, RobotC, is combined with one of our favorite hardware systems, Arduino.

Thanks to Marcelino Andrade who sent us a video and explanation of some physics demonstrations he's doing for his students with the dIMU for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT.

A sneak preview of something coming soon. Aswin over at Guy NXT Door has released a few sneak videos of something that will be available to the LEGO community soon. Check out the videos below of that something.

Ashok Gadgil is a professor at UC Berkeley. But in his spare time, he’s come up with solutions for water, cooking, and energy quandaries, improving lives from the Sudan to India.

Improvements

We're big fans of the radio show Marketplace on NPR. Marketplace recently did a fantastic week-long peice on how robots are changing the economy, for better and (some people think) for worse.

We've recently been working on an example to communicate directly to individual XBee radios. The NXTBee allows for mesh-networking and a whole lot of other really awesome capabilities of the XBee radio system. One of those capabilities is to be able to send messages directly on a single radio, and only that radio.