Lego Mindstorms back and better!

[electron]

I always wanted to get one of these kits, just because there is such a huge community dedicated to doing some really cool stuff with this, but then I learnt that they no longer offered these kits for sale. Looks like they just announced a new generation at CES2006:

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/g...997&newsLang=en

 

[smee]

Here's the official site with some information and press releases:

LEGO Mindstorms

There's also a new blog that's been set up:

NXTBot blog

Also some discussion on lugnet:

Lugnet discussion

There's a picture of the controller and sensors/motors/etc. They look a little too "rounded" to me and not LEGO-like enough, but I'm not going to complain too much. And they've abandoned the traditional wiring (2 conductors) for what looks like phone cords and up to 6 conductors.

The are recruiting product testers if anyone is interested . I'd apply, but I'm sure I wouldn't have time to devote to doing a good job of testing.

I will probably be in line in August to get one, though.

 

[electron]

I would love to build a house bot which roams the house with a security cam and other type of sensors, based on commands sent by my HA equipment. Guess I better start saving up for this, looks like I have some time.

I would love to build a mini-Terminator which chases after any mice or pets

 

[Squintz]

That is pretty cool. We played with something similar when I was in elementary school. I think we built two stop lights that changed like real stop lights. I may have to pick up a few of these 'for my son'