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Tuesday, October 02, 2007 4:06 PM

Introducing the New NXT Parts Pack

Originally available from the 8272 TECHNIC Snowmobile Set, comes the new Track and Sprockets Set. This new spare parts set contains 100 track elements and 10 sprockets; further enabling the creation of wicked awesome NXT robots (see below).

Product Name: Track and Sprockets Pack
Item Number: 991369
Price: $12.00
Contents: 100 track elements, 10 sprockets

The set is available now at www.legoeducation.com

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Thursday, January 11, 2007 11:01 AM

Compass Bot

Tim, one of our NXT fans in LEGO Education Customer Support, created this robot that uses the Compass Sensor the other day. We thought you might like to see it in various stages of building. [mygal=compass-bot] He also passed on a program to use for it. The program, called "Face North" is designed to do just that - when you run the program, the robot will automatically turn to face magnetic north. Tim says
"Keep in mind that I start most of my programs with a 'wait for touch' so people can choose 'run' then put the bot down and the program won't actually begin to execute until they activate the touch sensor. They can always just remove that one icon... and the program will begin to execute immediately when they choose 'run'."
Download: Face North (700KB)
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Tuesday, October 03, 2006 10:10 AM

Building Guides for NXT Models

You might have noticed the new NXT Models section in the navigation section just below our header.  Currently, the building guides for both the Education models and the Retail models are available there. We'd love to add more models to the page, however.  If you've got a model you think others would be interested in, we'd love to hear about it.  Photos or drawings showing step-by-step building instructions make it even better, but feel free to share even if you don't have those things.  Send any models or links to NXT@LEGOeducation.com, or leave a link in the comments.
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