Student Resources
LEGO League Websites:
National program. Read about the guiding principle of the program—gracious professionalism. Site covers high school First Robotics Competition, First Vex Challenge, and First LEGO League.
Minnesota LEGO League. Building technique tutorial, info on how tournaments are judged, and tournament videos. Look for headers ‘FLL strategy videos’ and ‘challenges’.
Techbrick Team. Tips from a FLL team in Maryland.
Programming/Software:
Programming with NXT Software. Great reference for how to write programs using Mindstorms, which is the software we use.
Conserving Memory on Your NXT. Describes how to free up memory if you run into a storage issue. We have yet to blow out the capacity of the new NXT, but you never know!
Official LEGO Mindstorms Education Site. For the over-the-counter version of the NXT set. Cool stuff, so check it out!
Latest NXT Driver, Version 1.02. Install it.
Other Stuff:
The Art of Lego Design. [PDF] An analysis of the structure of a LEGO; discussion of gears, gear reduction, and geartrains; and building tricks.