Browsing Archive: January, 2012

CATROID : Scratch for Android

Posted by on Saturday, January 21, 2012, In : Programs and Utilities

For who loves graphical programming languages, like NXT-G, I signal an interesting growing project: CATROID.
CATROID, brother of Google App Inventor, takes its steps from MIT-developed SCRATCH programming language,
and implements some blocks to control the NXT brick via Bluetooth!

It is still a bit limited, but it's the first on-phone graphical programming language for the NXT. Even the textual programmers should be quite excited.

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NXT Avatar

Posted by on Saturday, January 21, 2012, In : Lego

NXTAVATAR is a Tele-presence robot. It is build with LEGO®MINDSTORMS®

It is developed to make it possible for kids around the globe to play with each other in a new interactive way. Therefore it uses Skipe® to connect the kids with each other. It is designed to handle latency/disruption of the video connection as good as possible.

It Features:
- Remote control using the internet
- Face to face interaction
- Full audio & video communication
- Moves forward & backward
- Turns left & right
- Looks...