New GBC module

Although I wasn't the first to come up with the idea of a module like this, I believe I was the first to come up with the idea of inverting the treads and using them to make the wheel. Let me know if someone else had the idea first.

Lights OUT!

Sometimes you just aren't sleepy, but you'll get in trouble if you stay up past your bedtime... Lights OUT to the rescue! It sits in the hallway and when your parent comes down to check if you're asleep it turns off the lights!


YouTube distorted it...So it looks weird.

Xmas Xpress

A lot of kids like to put a miniature electric train around their xmas trees. We have one and we would like it, BUT... The track always comes apart so it barely ever works. So I made a line follower instead. I know the train cars are kind of ridiculous, but I really don't like building LEGO trains.

Thief Detection (and Elimination)

This is a LEGO/NXT creation I made that features a lego person "running" toward some money that he wants to steal. Luckily there is a state-of-the-art LASER-based security system that takes out the would-be thief with a missile.

It's a little distorted... YouTube's fault!

PuddleWorks v1.5

(My entry for Action_Puny's Trialtank contest)

This is a robot I just made with my new treads designed to go on all terrain. Most treaded robots can do that. But this one can go through water! It can go in up to 7 cm deep water; Probably it could do better but I don't want to risk getting the NXT/motors wet.


Sorry for the mediocre quality of the video. Because of testing it in the bathtub I had to shoot it with indoor-quality lighting.

MouseBot

This is a creation that takes advantage of our old trackball mouse. It uses a motor to spin the trackball either this way ↗ or this way ↙. If you connect it to someone's computer you can annoy the heck out of them by gravitating the cursor toward the top right or bottom left corner!

It's especially good on Macs, as you can see in this video, because in System Preferences you can set the screensaver to start when the cursor goes to a corner of the screen...

Strobe-Bot II

Here's a clip:



And here are some pics.



The best part? While spinning it whacked a fly.

The Rolling Terror

This is certainly a menacing creation...



...most of the time.

The Robot of Many Names

I'm not quite sure what to call this robot... it has been dubbed "Cute-bot", "Drunken", and "Hermit Crab" (My favorite).

Okay, I'll call it the Hermit Crab.

Anyways, it's original main purpose was to be cute.  Here's a vid:

TP-bot

You know when the president lands in his chopper and they unroll the red carpet? Well, I don't have a carpet like that so toilet paper will have to do.

StringThing

The StringThing uses one motor to spin a string. That's it. Oh right: it spins it in a sine wave. Cool, huh?

TugBot II

Finally, a new robot!!! This is my entry to NXTCentral's Move That Weight challenge. It can pull 10.3 pounds, and it is shown in the video pulling it 5 feet in 39 seconds. Now that I've entered my robot, I'll get some new bots built.






Also, did you notice the random header images? Reload this page a few times and they should change. Feedback on them please!

The NeXT Bus

This is my first entry for the Earth Day Building Challenge: The NeXT Bus! It is one of the first robotic public buses, and possibly the first made out of LEGO.
So here is how it helps the Earth:
This bus uses the same amount of energy as a TriBot, right? Well, maybe a little more, but about the same. So what's the point? I'll tell you. This bus easily carries 8 minifigs, but these minifigures are traveling alone, so if they weren't on this bus, they'd be in 8 different cars! So with this bus, you would be using approximately 1/8 of the energy that would have been used.
Admittedly it doesn't look much like a real bus, but at least it is functional! It has rack-and-pinion steering like a real bus, windows etc.

NXTrain - a LEGO Monorail

This is a lego monorail I made that ferries Storm troopers over the ravine between... um ... stoolistan and chairville. Hope you like it. The stop motion isn't that great, but that might be because of my lack of any animation software. Still, I think it's good! The music is by my friend Ben and his dad Mark.

Netch-a-sketch

Here is a great robot that my best friend Ben made, called the Netch-a-sketch. Well actually it's the program that's cool. As you may have guessed from the name, it is an NXT based etch-a-sketch.
If you want to see it in action, download the program  (Right Click the link and choose Save as to download). I'd have included a video, but unfortunately you can't take Screencasts with the NXT :-(

NXTBot Lite

I made this a robot as an experiment to see how small a NXT robot I could make. If you can make a smaller one, email me photos at nxtmonger@gmail.com

NXTyper

This robot can type "NXT" on my MacBook! Take a look at the video below.

Forklift

+ NXT =

Here's a great new project I just made: a forklift!

SPMP

Meet the (S)emi (P)ortable (M)usic (P)layer (SPMP)!

This is the new hi-tech music player! The iPod now has a rival! Or maybe I should wait till someone buys mine before I say that...
Anyways, this is a robot that can carry around your Boom Box wherever you go! It even has a rack to carry all of your CDs. It'll play mp3s too as soon as LEGO improves the sound capability of the NXT... (hint, hint, LEGO!)
And if your music is all on your computer...
It will carry that too!

BlueTooth Remote Control

This is a lesson on how to control one NXT with another. (via BlueTooth)
Ingredients:

• Two NXTs
• One computer
• 4 motors

1. First, you need to build a Tribot, or some similiar basic robot. (picture 1)
2. You then will build a remote like the one in picture 2
2. Connect the motors on both car and remote to motor ports A and C
Then, open the program with the NXT-G programming application.
3. Download Remote.rbt to the Controller NXT
4. Download Receiver.rbt to the vehicle robot.


5.
Connect the NXTs through BlueTooth on connection 1.

6. Run the programs. Use the paddles on the controller to steer the robot.




Credits:
Some of the program was from Brian Davis.