Archives for the 'Lego' Category
Prototyping Prosthetics with LEGOs
Published on 17 Jun 2007 at 12:16 am.
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Filed under Entrepreneurship, Inventions, Lego, Neuroscience, Research, Robotics, Solutions.
This morning I was surfing the web for LEGO Arm designs to try to come up with ideas for stabilizing the pretty mediocre arm I built last night for our upcoming demonstration at MAXENT 2007. I came across a blog called the Open Prosthetics Project featuring a piece titled “Articulated Hand: Low Cost Prototyping with [...]
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Building Lego Robots with Java Brains
Published on 18 May 2007 at 2:51 am.
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Filed under Exploration, Fun, Intelligent Systems, Lego, NXT, Physics, Research.
I finally received my long-awaited copy of Maximum Lego NXT: Building Robots with Java Brains by Brian Bagnall. I was pleased to see that in addition to the in-depth discussions regarding writing code for these robots in Java, that there were also some interesting projects.
My favorite was the Lego implementation of the Rocker-Bogie suspension, which [...]
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The Blossoming Lotus
Published on 10 May 2007 at 3:28 am.
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Filed under Fun, Lego.
This is a fun Lego creation of mine. Basically it is a large 2D version of a Hoberman sphere. Why did I not make a large Hoberman sphere? First, the parts to make the circle cost almost $80 US. Second, I have other more pressing projects I am working on.
So here is what I call [...]
Lego Rubik’s Cube
Published on 6 May 2007 at 3:25 pm.
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Filed under Fun, Inventions, Lego, NXT, Robotics.
I stumbled across a working Rubik’s Cube made from Legos. The design is by Maarten Steurbaut, and it is an impressive compact design (his second version). Below is a MLCAD/POV Ray image of the inner workings of his cube.
His first design was much more complex (below), and I find the images to be quite impressive. [...]
Lego Machine used to test Blackberry
Published on 29 Apr 2007 at 12:02 am.
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Filed under Intelligent Systems, Inventions, Lego, NXT, Robotics.
As reported on PCSTATS, Research in Motion (RIM) engineer Matthias Wendel designed a Lego Machine to test their Blackberry Pagers. The machine rotates the pager about two axes in a pre-programmed manner allowing the engineer to systematically test the reception of the 900 MHz wireless device in the environment.
This is an excellent example of how [...]
