Lego Mindstorms NXT Forum

See Wimo’s blog at: 

http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/05/13/596684.aspx

I attended Microsoft’s NXT demo yesterday. What a great event! Not to mention the free box lunch NXT MDP Steven Hassenplug, David Schilling and Christopher Smith were there showing off their robots. The funny thing is that I didn’t even realize Christopher from the nxt step was actually there until I read Jim’s (actually Christopher wrote it) blog entry at http://thenextstep.blogspot.com/ this morning! What a small world!

Anyway, we got some cool demo from both the MDPs and the Microsoft Robotics team. For pictures and details, click here.

Two new bots we saw yesterday: (1) Christopher’s cool “Starwar” bot and (2) Microsoft’s NXT bot controlled from a PC via a bluetooth phone on the robot:

Microsoft announces the Microsoft Robotics Studio, which offers end-to-end robotics development environment customer technical preview for hobbyist, academic, and commercial developers.  

A quote relating to NXT:

“Microsoft, together with the upcoming LEGO Mindstorms NXT, will help further amplify the impact of robotics,” said Soren Lund, director of LEGO Mindstorms. “… In combination with Microsoft Robotics Studio, PC users will have a sophisticated tool that will further extend the powerful NXT hardware and software to an even wider range of developers who wish to create advanced applications for their LEGO robots.”

Check out their Channel 9 video for an insider’s look at the team and what it is all about:

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=206574

The Microsoft robotics team’s blog is at:

http://blogs.msdn.com/MSRoboticsStudio/

Microsoft Robotics Studio General Manager Tandy Trower: