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A Noob’s First Impressions Of LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0
As Ken pointed out the other day, GeekDad has been fortunate enough to land some early LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0 kits. At our house, we’re big LEGO supporters, but we’re NXT noobs; our kids have been too...
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Bunk Bots: Robots for Geeklings
Are you searching for the perfect gift for your baby, small child or even favorite grown-up? There aren’t many items out there that fit the bill for all of the above, but I have recently found one. It...
View ArticleFantasy LEGO Mindstorms Sensors Made Real
Christoph Bartneck, an industrial design professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the NetherlandsDenmark, teaches a course I would have killed to take: a master class to create expansion...
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GeekDad’s 2nd 3rd Anniversary: Why I started GeekDad by Chris Anderson
This picture is why I started GeekDad. It was taken about two years ago on our back patio and shows my then 9-year-old Daniel and me with our Lego UAV, which we had just built together. He was into...
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MoonBots Registration Deadline Quickly Approaching
If you’re looking for a great summer project for your kids, a neighborhood group or youth organization, the MoonBots Challenge is one you should examine closely. The challenge encourages teams of...
View ArticleA Lego Mindstorms Jack-o-Lantern
Geeky dad Michael Schenck and his son Alex did something awesome for Halloween: they built a jack-o-lantern with Lego Mindstorms NXT components inside to give it a robotic twist. From Michael’s...
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Lego Friends Robotics Lab, Now Roboticized
I disagree with those who hate on Lego’s Friends line precisely because those sets are not the culmination of the creative process of building with Lego, but instead are the beginning. Case in point,...
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This Lego Portal Gun Will Teleport You to Geek Heaven
We have already talked about Lego and Portal a couple of times on GeekDad and even wrote about the both of them combined. Here is another great example of the perfect combination or shall I say...
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Third Generation of Lego Mindstorms Coming to Classrooms Later This Year
The third evolution of Lego robotics, Lego Mindstorms EV3, is announced with specially developed plans for classroom use.
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