LEGO Technic & Mindstorms Video Reviews

LEGO 60052 Cargo Train Review

Jun

2014

And well, after my review of the 60051 Passenger Train, here I am today with the review of the 60052 Cargo Train. This LEGO Train is the spiritual successor of the 7939 Cargo Train and it is very similar to the old Maersk Locomotive release a few years ago but in a darker blue. Let’s ...

LEGO 60051 Passenger Train Review 1

Jun

2014

Woo! I thought it will never happen but here they are, the brand new LEGO Trains that replace 7938 Passenger Train and 7939 Cargo Train. I have bought both ( whatelse! ) but today I am going to review for you the 60051 Passenger Train. Time to review! By the way, I haven’t bought yet ...

The Best LEGO Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit Sets

Jun

2014

Do you want to feel like a little hobbit wearing the most powerful weapon ever created to the the place it was forged so it can be destroyed? Surely you don’t… but you will enjoy like one building these sets. If you are interested in buying some of them you better hurry up because many ...

What happens when a Robot has different size wheels?

Jun

2014

This article is another spin-off of the Differential-drive robot calibration. If you remember the article at the end you found that wheels are most of the times of different sizes with differences of around 0.01% but that are big enough to affect movement over 1 meter. So… What happens when you move one meter straight ...

HOWTO Calibrate a differential robot: UMBMark Explained 13

Jun

2014

This article is just a follow-up of drawing squares with leJOS where the problem of calibrating correctly your differential robot appeared. So, if you recall our squares drawing robot, we needed to travel around the four legs of a square turning 90 degrees on each corner so that we ended in the initial position using ...

LEGO 4204 Gold Mine Review

May

2014

I got the Gold Mine because it was big and I was envisioning a good usage for the mountain bricks. And what the hell because it looks very nice. When I bought it I found the mountain bricks are in fact a few big parts… but anyway… let’s review it. Share this:FacebookTwitterGoogleDiggStumbleUponMoreEmailRedditLinkedInPrintPinterestTumblr

Draw a Square: Using Motors in leJOS EV3 5

May

2014

Well, if you successfully installed leJOS using the tutorial then your first steps would be to write a program to do something with it and then you will see the abyss that exists between you and a nice leJOS program. So let’s learn leJOS basics to write our own programs. Most of the documentation available ...

Playing with LEGO Train Tracks: Slopes, x-crosses and levels 2

May

2014

Hello there. No, no, I am not dead. I am so busy that I have almost no time to write here… but I am working actively on two LEGO areas: robots and trains. And today I want to share with you two of my latest creations. I have created two different layouts to work with ...

LEGO DC Superheroes 76002 Superman Metropolis Showdown

May

2014

This is my first LEGO Superheroes set. I saw this LEGO Superman on Amazon and decided to give it a try. And I have to say that I have enjoyed it a lot, I wasn’t expecting such a nice set. Here is the review Share this:FacebookTwitterGoogleDiggStumbleUponMoreEmailRedditLinkedInPrintPinterestTumblr

LEGO 79007 Battle at The Black Gate Review

May

2014

Despite not being as good as William Wallace Speech at the Battle of Stirling, King Aragorn speech on front of the Black Gate of Mordor is still one of the most exciting parts of The Lord of The Rings movies together with the Deep’s Helm battle. This set is a representation of the gate that ...