It’s my second year of coaching a First Lego League team. The experience has been fantastic, I’m teaching 4th and 5th grade children about robots and computers, and teaching them to build and program their own robots. This year the kids are going to be learning how to use the new Lego Mindstorms NXT robot; [...]
Entries from September 2007
SpaceNavigator controlled Lego Mindstorms NXT
September 26th, 2007 · Comments · Default
Tags:Cocoa·Lego·Links·Mindstorms·NXT·Source Code·SpaceNavigator
The Intersection of Cool and Awesome
September 25th, 2007 · Comments · Default
3Dconnexion (a division of Logitech) produces the coolest named device ever: The 3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator . This is a 3D input device with 6 degrees of freedom, meaning you can move and rotate it through the X, Y and Z planes. I bought it originally on a whim (hey only 50 bucks!) for use with Google Sketchup [...]
Tags:3Dconnexion·Acorn·Cocoa·Flying Meat·Source Code·SpaceNavigator