MoonBots 2015 Challenge Begins with Call for Explorers, Adventurers and Dreamers
The 2015 MOONBOTS Challenge launches today and its a great way for kids to learn about space, robotics, and pick up some STEM skills at the same time.
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Tag: Mindstorms
MoonBots Competition Announces Finalists, Enters Second Phase
The MoonBots competition enters its second phase, as kids build robots to replicate lunar exploration.
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Registration for the 2014 MoonBots Challenge is Now Open
Registration for the fourth edition of the MoonBots challenge is now open. Red more about this year’s competition and prizes.
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Mindstorms EV3 Education Gets a Big Boost Thanks to Its Powerful Software
A hands-on review of the education version of Mindstorms EV3 kit shows that educators have a lot to look forward to, thanks to powerful software that drives both curriculum and learning.
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Mindstorms Will Be Going Back-to-School Later This Year
The third version of Lego robotics, Lego Mindstorms EV3, has been announced with a special software application that was developed especially for classroom use.
Continue ReadingEnhancing Lego Mindstorms with Arduino
Lego Mindstorms NXT is a sophisticated and fun educational robotics set that teaches kids and adults engineering and programming skills. As versatile as it is, however, wouldn’t it be cool to enhance those cool Lego robots with Arduino boards and …
Continue ReadingYouTube Musician Pixietea Covers Marry You With a Lego Mindstorms Back-up Band
Fabulous use of a LEGO Mindstorms NXT set as the actuator for a variety of instruments in this fun cover of Bruno Mars’ Marry You. I especially love the bass “guitar.”
Continue ReadingPlaying With Lego Mindstorms at FIRST Place Robotics Camp
FIRST stands for “For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology” and is part of Dean Kamen’s mission to promote his own love of science and technology. One of his most well-known efforts is FIRST Lego League, which reaches kids as young as six years old.
Continue ReadingThis Week With The GeekMoms
Brigid is blogging about balancing her artistic time between commercial work that feeds her tummy and personal work that feeds her soul. Ariane started watching the first season of Game Of Thrones on DVD. She is consequently highly disturbed. She’s also fretting about a forecast of rain this weekend after a relatively dry California winter. […]
Continue ReadingA Lego Mindstorms Jack-o-Lantern
Geeky dad Michael Schenck and his son Alex did something awesome for Halloween: they built a jack-o-lantern with Lego Mindstorms NXT components inside to give it a robotic twist. From Michael’s description: What – do you say – is a …
Continue ReadingDon’t Blink: Lego NXTs and an Android Smartphone Just Solved Your Rubik’s Cube
What do you get when you combine four Lego Mindstorms NXTs, a Samsung Galaxy SII, a Rubik’s Cube, and two creative minds? You get a robot that can solve the Rubik’s Cube faster than a human.
Continue ReadingLearning Through Lego: S.T.E.M. and Back Again
Legos are internationally cherished small plastic interlocking building blocks and minifigures that can be taken apart and used to build other objects. Over the years, Lego has expanded its creations to include products like gears and pulleys and even electronic …
Continue ReadingLearning Through Legos: S.T.E.M. and Back Again
Legos are internationally cherished small plastic interlocking building blocks and minifigures that can be taken apart and used to build other objects. Over the years, Lego has expanded its creations to include products like gears and pulleys and even electronic parts for constructing programmable robots. As a result, there are popular Lego robotics leagues and […]
Continue ReadingMoonBots Challenge Winners Visit Lego HQ
Bringing the whole wonderful experience that has been our involvement in the MoonBots Challenge to a close, we’re happy to deliver this video of the winning team visiting Lego Headquarters in Billund, Denmark (hence the Danish voiceover) and showing off …
Continue ReadingMoonBots Are Go at First World Championships
We are very happy to finally announce the start of the MoonBots Challenge, which is being formally kicked off at the First World Championships today. More from the official press release: ATLANTA, GA – FIRST WORLD Championships (April 15, 2010) …
Continue ReadingA Noob’s First Impressions Of LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0
As Ken pointed out the other day, GeekDad has been fortunate enough to land some early LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0 kits. At our house, we’re big LEGO supporters, but we’re NXT noobs; our kids have been too young to delve …
Continue ReadingOne-Kit Wonders Delivers Simple & Fun Mindstorms Projects
One problem I’ve had with LEGO Mindstorms books — even otherwise exemplary ones like Fay Rhodes’ LEGO Mindstorms NXT Zoo — is that the writers are so rich with Technics elements that perhaps they assume the rest of us are …
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