The all-new NXT Intelligent Brick, your robots brain, features a powerful 32-bit microprocessor and Flash memory, plus support for Bluetooth and USB 2.0! The NXT intelligent Brick... more
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microprocessor and Flash memory, plus support for Bluetooth? and USB 2.0! The NXT intelligent Brick includes: 32-bit ARM7 microprocessor.Support for Bluetooth wireless ...
The all-new NXT Intelligent Brick, your robots brain, features a powerful 32-bit microprocessor and Flash memory, plus support for Bluetooth and USB 2.0! The NXT intelligent Brick includes: 32-bit ARM7 microprocessor.Support for Bluetooth wireless communication.1 USB 2.0 port.4 input ports.3 output ports.Powered by 6 AA (1.5v) Batteries, not included, or lithium Rechargeable Battery (#9798), sold separately.Up to three NXT Bricks can be connected at the same time
Advantages: Its very educational and fun for kids and adults too Disadvantages: Its a bit complex for those not into Lego, bluethooth problems
...IntelligentBrick
Rechargeable lithium battery and charger
3 servo motors
1 ultrasonic distance and movement sensor
1 sound sensor, with sound pattern
1 light sensor, detecting light intensity
2 touch sensors (press/release/bump detection)
3 converter cables, for using Mindstorms RIS 2.0 sensors and motors with the NXTbrick (each 39cm)
7 connector cables (one 20cm, four 35cm, two 50cm)
3 lamps
Extras
Well that's pretty much the whole Lego spectrum of products. In particular I would go to ebay and get extra axels & pins.
There are a number of specialist sites providing extra sensors for the brain, see the links section next. These include;
Compass sensor
Color sensor
Accelerometer sensor
Infrared seeker
Gyroscopic sensor
Infrared link sensor
You can also get a number of really good books from amazon...
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Advantages: A new generation in lego building Disadvantages: Is very expensive
...Gone are the days where you just build house, towns, cars from lego, this new genius invention enables you to not only build a robot but with its new technology you can actually bring your robot to life.
With this kit you can create many different designs of lego robots, the easiest can be built in just under 30 minutes. With the ingenius NXTIntelligentBrick which is the robots 'BRAIN' hosting a 32 bit microprocessor it enables the robot to obey your every command, this microprocessor supports USB and bluetooth also to add to its many benefits.
It comes with a quick start guide which is very simple to follow, software and step-by-step building instructions to create an bundance of different designed robots, including humanoids, vehicles and animals and they obey every comand.
Basically by connecting through your PC, you...
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Advantages: Fun, creative, historic, durable Disadvantages: Some funny bricks, costly
...such as plastic-framed windows.
Lego also have moved into different sectors and different creative tools.
For example, Lego launched a series of software including the famous Legoland game, in which you build and manage a theme park similar to Legolands around the work and Lego Racer, a childish car racing game.
Another example is the popular Clickits series for girls. They make non-Lego accessories by linking together different object, to create an attractive picture frame for example. I don't know much about these as they're relatively new.
Now naturally the famous Duplo, bigger objects, but still heavily Lego based. The bricks are larger than Lego, the characters are and it has a tendency to include animals. These are for pre-school children.
LegoMindstorms are robots made out of Lego style object. You can control and program them...
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Lego Mindstorms NXT
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This was bought on eBay, the UK site. The item was new and unused. All of the bags were unopened. It cost £110 which was a considerable saving on the high street price. I have to say that for me this was the... more
if you need to move bricks or blocks this is the tool for you
the top gripper is connected to the handle so when you lift it pushes the brick against the back gripper holding everything in place
carry 6 brick with one hand, just line them up place more