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LEGO Turing Machine
In celebration of the centenary year of Alan Turing’s birth Jeroen van den Bos and Davy Landman at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam (Netherlands) built a LEGO version of a Turing machine - the universal computing device that theoretically models how all computation is done. You can read about it at LEGO Turing Machine.
Mike Brandl’s LEGO submarine
Mike Brandl is a fellow LEGO MCP and all-round outstanding LEGO builder. His latest project certainly pushes the envelope when it comes to putting the NXT in a harsh environment. This time he has built a LEGO submarine that can navigate successfully underwater. The NXT is housed in a plastic sealed bag, with glue around(…)
Updated: a leJOS driver class for the NXT2WIFI
Danny Benedettelli recently provided me with a NXT2WIFI prototype sensor to start development of a leJOS driver for it. I’ve been working on the code in my (limited) spare time and have a basic client and server interface developed in Java. This is available in the latest SVN snapshot of leJOS.
Coming soon - leJOS driver for the WifiBlock
The good people at HumaRobotics sent me a prototype WifiBlock to develop a leJOS driver around. I’m working on this in parallel with the NXT2WIFI driver, so it’s interesting to compare both sensors.
LEGO Heavy Weapons - a new book from Jack Street
I received a preview paper copy of the new book from NoStarch press titled “Lego Heavy Weapons” by Jack Street. For those of you who don’t know Jack is a young prodigy in the area of Lego gunsmiths as he built is first working Lego gun at the tender age of 13, and has been(…)