Journey account on Atlanta FLL world finals

Austrian MCP Mike Brandl has published a travelogue of his six days sojourn at the FLL world finals in Atlanta in mid of April. Have a look at his site where you will find a lot of interesting photos and videos.

Besides, it's a good opportunity to see how some of the people that are posting here actually lool like... ;) 

Humanoid Robot Sumo European Championship

Last weekend, the RobotChallenge 2010 took place in Vienna, allegedly Euope's largest robot challenge event, in connection with the Robot Sumo European Championship 2010.
MCP Mike Brandl made European Champion in the category "Humanoid Robot Sumo" with a NXT Robot called Evil Bill (while Bill's brother Evil Ted made Third):



Two more NXT robots by Mike made Second and Fourth in the Humanoid Robot Sprint challenge.

Hail Mike, European Humanoid Robot Sumo King!

Have a look at his elaborate web site on the event - in German, though, but there are a lot of pictures and movies.

Paint your easter eggs with the NXT

Easter is at hand, and in time MCP Mike Brandl from Austria has adapted his 2008's christmas bauble painter to use it for painting easter eggs:



At the bottom of the assiocated web page, you can find a LDraw file that can be used as building instructions as well as the archived NXT-G program (including the required MyBlocks and a small ReadMe for usage).

Go for it and show us your best easter eggs you have created with it!

More images from the MINDSTORMS 10th anniversary celebrations

Mike Brandl from Austria has visited the celebrations of the 10th anniversary of LEGO® MINDSTORMS in the LEGO® headquarters in Billund, Denmark, alongside with some other MCPs; he has published a lot of photos of the event in his web site.
Have a look and enjoy: there are many prominent robot members of the MINDSTORMS history to be seen.