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Lego Mindstorm NXT Controlled with Arduino

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Clinton Blackmore form the Southern Alberta Robotics Enthusiasts club put together some pretty neat software to control Lego NXT motors and sensors by using the Arduino microcontroller.

Lego NXT robot Controlled by Arduino

As shown in the video below, he is using the Mindsesors Multiplexer for NXT Motors coupled with an Arduino Compatible Seeeduino in order to control a small robot made from Lego NXT parts, read NXT encoders and more. All the required code for the Arduino can be found in the NXT I2C Devices For Arduino Project Page.

The possibilities that this enables are almost endless. Especially when considering that now Arduino Shields can be used in order to extend the capabilities of the Lego NXT parts.

Via Make.

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MultiCuber: the Lego robot expert in Rubik’s Cubes

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

We’ve already told you before about Lego Mindstorms robots which are able to solve a Rubik’s Cube with ridiculous ease in record time, such as CubeStormer.

This time, here’s MultiCuber, the expert in Rubik’s Cubes regardless of the number of faces.

MultiCuber starts with a 2x2x2 and ends its exercise by working out a 5x5x5.

But that’s not all, here’s a bonus 6x6x6 cube!!

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Tetris Bot: a Lego Mindstorms Robot that plays Tetris

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

The best Tetris players now have competition from this Lego robot that plays the Tetris game all on its own.

Branislov Kisacanin has created a robotic player prototype with the help of Mindstorms parts, a webcam and a computer. A Texas Instruments DSP board (TI DM6437 DSP board) decrypts what happens on the screen and then communicates with the Mindstorms NXT robot through LED lights.

The Tetris Bot types all by itself using the keyboard’s number pad (up to 3 keystrokes per second) to guide Tetris shapes in the right direction.

This prototype is still only at the experimental stage and can’t perform as well as regular Tetris players but give it a little time and it could well impress us in the next few months.

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Niko: the LEGO robot controlled by Twitter

Friday, March 19th, 2010

Niko Robot

You’ll be surprised to learn that Twitter can even give instructions to a robot!

The idea: users type specific commands on Twitter to the @n900niko account, for example of a computer, which are sent to a hacked Nokia N900 which retransmits the instructions to the LEGO Mindstorms robot.

Nokia can take photos which are automatically sent to Twitpic.

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CubeStormer solves a Rubik’s Cube in record-breaking time

Monday, February 15th, 2010

CubeStormer, based on Lego Mindstorms, solves a Rubik’s Cube in just a few seconds.

We’ve presented this great video creation of a Mindstorms NXT solving a Rubik’s Cube using a Nokia phone.

This time we’ve found even better with a speed record holder.

Cubestormer is a real fighting machine. Created by Robotic Solutions, it is made entirely of Lego pieces and can solve a 3x3x3 Rubik’s cube in less than 12 seconds.