Lego Mindstorms NXT Forum

I have been notified that my google map related blogs were not appropriate for this blog. I agree and I’d like to offer my apology and an explaination. To start, I have trimmed those blog entries.

I started this blog because I am interested in technical things geeks like including robotics and programming. That was why we did the Google Map site. In fact we simply wanted to create a map application with a database backend that contains a healthy number of points on Google Map and dating databases happens to meet that criteria. Looking back, we actually created a real estate map site first but pulled out because of legal reasons.

On a personal note, I am happily married with 2 young kids myself, so dating is definately not my game :)

If you are interested in the technical side of the project, check out the API we used: Google’s API at http://www.google.com/apis/maps/ and Yahoo’s geocoding API at http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/rest/V1/geocode.html.

I’d seriously consider creating a LEGO related Google Map. If you have great ideas, please send them my way

The usual excuse: work is busy and my software design specification has to be done by the end of month and Beta customers are coming in for training in May. So I am tied up there.

Another reason: I did a fun Google Map project which took me a month and half to do plan and program. It is coded using (1) Google Map API (2) Yahoo’s Geo-coding web service (3) hotOrNot’s web service. The site is at: http://www.mapluv.com/hotornot

We are getting some new visitors from Jeff’s nxtbot.com blog. I guess we better start blogging again. Jeff blog has some great first hand information about NXT from the 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Be sure to check out his site.

And thanks for all the comments. Keep them coming!

-Steve and Lisa