And More Updates...

Hey all! I hope you had a great Christmas and New Year! I am now back from an overseas trip and I will quickly post a few recent updates:

NXTLog Robotic Arm Challenge

This challenge invites you to create:

* The bionic arm of tomorrow
* A robotic arm designed with many of degrees of freedom (See NXTLog link for more details on Degrees of Freedom))
* An industrial robotic arm
* A just for fun robotic arm

The robotic arm you create can be autonomous (with a progrom) or manually operated via remote control!

Competitiors have untill February 28, 2010 to submit their project, which also needs to be tagged with"roboticarm" to participate in the challenge!

I have submitted my Lunar Mineral Sorter - Static.

--> NXTLog Robotic Arm Challenge Page

The Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Book Repository


This book repository manged by David J. Perdue has been updated with some of the latest NXT books

--> Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Book Repository

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I hope to get back into NXTing soon!

LA

FLL in New Zealand!

FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is quite a well known robotics competition held in the U.S, and many international teams compete every year. However, if you live in New Zealand, an alternative has arrived -Kiwi FIRST!

Kiwi FIRST FLL has started a pilot year for the popular U.S FLL competiton in New Zealand, and registrations will begin to be taken from the 10th July. A 24 team pilot tournament will be taking place on the 12th December at ACG Strathallan.

The challenge, Smart Move, has been introduced with the question "Can FIRST LEGO League teams transform the way we look at transportation?"

For more information, regularly check: http://kiwifirst.org/