instructions from BrickGun

I ordered the LEGO instructions from BrickGun. Their gun replicas look amazing. They are so realistic that they even got a guy arrested. Check out the news coverage (1, 2).

Holiday Lego sales

As usual, many retails have special sales over the holidays.
Here is a list of some of them:

- Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 for $227.99 at Amazon.com
- Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 for $201.59 at Target with coupon "A2VBT487"
- Toys R Us “Buy 1, get 1 half off” on Lego
- black LEGO Mindstorms NXT brick for $99 at Amazon.com

10th SoCal Code Camp

This weekend I attended the 10th SoCal Rock & Roll Code Camp. That means I have a perfect score: I attended every single SoCal Code Camp.

The 10th one was held at USC in Los Angeles. Overall I attended 4 in Fullerton, 4 in San Diego and 2 in Los Angeles. On top of attending every single one I also presented at 3. The topic of my presentations was programming LEGO Mindstorms robots.

I am looking forward to attending the 11th SoCal Code Camp in Fullerton on January 30th and 31st 2010. Check out their website for more details and to register. See you there.

BrickCon 2009 media coverage

At BrickCon 2009 in Seattle, WA I was interviewed by Ina Fried. Her cnet article includes the majority of the interview as well as two (1&2) pictures of my line-following Segway.

Toys R Us sale

I bought 42 LEGO set at Toys R Us. Who can say NO to LEGO at 10% off with new Toys R Us credit card + 33% off “buy 2, get 1 free” sale + Toys R Us rewards + 1% cash-back on credit card?

bought additional NXTs

I couldn’t resist buying 3 LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0 sets. I now have a total of 12 NXTs: 7 original white ones, 2 black ones and 3 version 2.0 ones. If I could just get my 6 robots to be in sync. I am trying to make them line-dance.

Toys R Us sale

Right now Toys R Us is offering the "buy 2, get 1 free" on most LEGO sets.
Here is their main page.

LEGO Technic Tora no Maki

Lee Magpili showed me a great e-book on Lego building technologies. It is called “LEGO Technic Tora no Maki” and was created by Isogawa Yoshihito. You can download the PDF here. Please don’t forget to donate $10.

LEGO Mindstorms Community Partners #4

I finally finished my application for the LEGO Mindstorms Community Partners (MCP4) program.