This is the first video of the full functionality of the Lego Mindstorms - Factory 2.0 project. All video was recorded during the LegoWorld 2010 event in Zwolle (The Netherlands) from October 20th until October 27th. A more extensive video demonstration will come later this year when I get things reprogrammed a bit to be more efficient as it currently is. The factory is capable of building virtually anything using the 95 types of bricks available in the warehouse. Models for the factory are designed using Lego Digital Designer (LDD) and are interpretted by custom written Windows software (For an example of this: www.youtube.com After interpretting the LDD model building instructions for the factory are generated and are sent to the master NXT of the factory. Creator: Martijn Bosgraaf (Dryw Filtiarn) Total construction time: 4.5 months (June 2010 until October 2010) ~ 150 hours of Lego building + ~ 100 hours of programming (5 NXT's + LDD model processing software) Total amount of bricks: Estimated to be around 25.000 Warehouse: 95 different bricks with a total of 1520 bricks in stock Maximum model size: 16 x 22 x 11 (width x length x height in bricks) Controlled by 5 NXT's, with a combined programming (NXC) line-count of nearly 50.000 lines of code. Models designed in Lego Digital Designer (LDD) A great thank you to Peer Kreuger (mahjqa) for his effort to record the video and editing it to get this video online. Visit his channel at: www.youtube.com 100.000 views: 23-11-2010

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This is a second attempt at building a Lego factory. The video shows the first module which will take care of building the bricks together. For an upcoming Lego event I have a temporary claw attached so that I can already show some of the functionality of this first module. The video was taken by Barry (www.youtube.com at the Lego Event organized by De Bouwsteen in Hardenberg (The Netherlands) on 14th and 15th of August 2010. The factory module as you see in the video is just for demo-purposes modified with a claw so that it can handle the boxes that are on the platform.

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Myself and Filtiarn explore wolf quests land,we hunt and kill verious animals,We travel to moon tree (as its so-called) its the only bare tree in the whole of Amethyst Mountain

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National Geographic made some footage for their Mega Factories episode on Lego during the LegoWorld 2010 event in Zwolle the Netherlands. I've been in the episode for a few seconds while I was working on the speedbuild record attempt for the Lego Tower Bridge model. The other people involved in the short speedbuild footage in the show: Dirk Plug, Maico Arts, Peter Dijkstra, Gerard Salden. In regards to the speedbuild, we broke the record! We build the Tower Bridge in 1 hour, 24 minutes and 38 seconds, beating the previous record set in Skaerbaek (Denmark) by 45 minutes, Skaerbaek record was 2 hours, 10 minutes and 21 seconds. No copyright infringement was meant in the use of the National Geographic footage, it was purely to show my appearance on the show.

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This is an first attempt to build a fully PF controlled mini version of the Swedish S-Tank. An outer shell will be build for it later on. Parts used: 3 M PF-motors, 2 IR receivers, 1 Linear actuator, 2 Tracks, +/- 50 other pieces (beams, gears, pins, etc)

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This is a second attempt at building a Lego factory. The video shows the first module which will take care of building the bricks together. For an upcoming Lego event I have a temporary claw attached so that I can already show some of the functionality of this first module. The video was taken after the first steps of writing the software for the 2 Lego NXT's that will control this module. There are some bugs in it and part of the program is only for testing purposes to test for repetitive movement and the reliability it has and the consistency it has in reproducing the same result endlessly.

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Not really showing something functional in this video, just a very quick and dirty overview of the entire factory construction. The mission: The entire factory will consist of a warehouse section with separate storage-bays for an assortment of in total 103 different parts (either different in colour or element-type) storing 16 elements of each type (this means that in total the warehouse will have over 1600 Lego pieces in the warehouse). Next to the warehouse there will be a robot taking care of receiving the parts from the warehouse-robot, which will receive the pieces, line them up for the building robot as well as rotating pieces if the model that is being build requires it to. The last robot is the building-robot, which will retrieve the pieces from the middle robot and then place it within the model being build. All robots in the factory are controlled by 5 NXT programmable bricks all joined in some way by a master-slave setup, where one of the NXT's will communicate with a computer in order to receive instructions so it is able to determine the pieces to be retrieved from the warehouse and where to put them in the model being build.

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It appears that my Mindstorms NXT programmable brick all of a sudden gave up on me. It's not even a year since I bought it. The one on the right is from a friend of mine, which works perfectly as it should. The one on the left shows mine, which obviously has issues with the display. Update: After looking around a bit more to see if it was a more common issue, I came across information about the failure on the NXTasy forums (forums.nxtasy.org Here you can find a video showing how to fix the issue: www.youtube.com

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This video shows the building-robot at it's second attempt placing bricks in a "model". In this video you will see that the previous part-release issues have been resolved. Next up to work on is the robot in the warehouse, once this is up and running I will try and create a first "tiny-turbo" like model with the factory. The mission: The entire factory will consist of a warehouse section with separate storage-bays for an assortment of in total 103 different parts (either different in colour or element-type) storing 16 elements of each type (this means that in total the warehouse will have over 1600 Lego pieces in the warehouse). Next to the warehouse there will be a robot taking care of receiving the parts from the warehouse-robot, which will receive the pieces, line them up for the building robot as well as rotating pieces if the model that is being build requires it to. The last robot is the building-robot, which will retrieve the pieces from the middle robot and then place it within the model being build. All robots in the factory are controlled by 5 NXT programmable bricks all joined in some way by a master-slave setup, where one of the NXT's will communicate with a computer in order to receive instructions so it is able to determine the pieces to be retrieved from the warehouse and where to put them in the model being build.

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Tijdens een verslavingsrondje horen we de Lego coming out van Vincent. Ook Tanja is een grote Legofan en wil zelfs in een kist van Legoblokjes begraven worden.

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A ball contraption I build for LegoWorld 2008. It is entirely mechanically steered, the delay on the digger bucket is also timed mechanicly by use of a pole reverser.

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Autumn, playing live at the Wâldrock 2007 metal festival in Bergum (Friesland, The Netherlands).

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This video shows the robot that will take care of receiving the parts from the warehouse robot and aligning them for the build-robot. This is the first robot of the entire factory that is now completed and fully functioning. The red tray you see in the top of the video (where I put the parts), is where the warehouse-robot will deliver the parts on a similar tray attached to that robot. This robot is capable of handling various 1xN Lego parts (up to 1x4). This also includes the round 1x1 plate and brick (the plate is shown at the end of the video). The mission: The entire factory will consist of a warehouse section with separate storage-bays for an assortment of in total 103 different parts (either different in colour or element-type) storing 16 elements of each type (this means that in total the warehouse will have over 1600 Lego pieces in the warehouse). Next to the warehouse there will be a robot taking care of receiving the parts from the warehouse-robot, which will receive the pieces, line them up for the building robot as well as rotating pieces if the model that is being build requires it to. The last robot is the building-robot, which will retrieve the pieces from the middle robot and then place it within the model being build. All robots in the factory are controlled by 5 NXT programmable bricks all joined in some way by a master-slave setup, where one of the NXT's will communicate with a computer in order to receive instructions so it is able to determine the <b>...</b>

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After Forever playing Lonely (Album limited edition, bonus track) during the CD Presentation of their new "After Forever" album at Tivoli (Utrecht, The Netherlands).

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This is a short video of the 8420 Lego Street Bike set (alternative model) Battery-box, located in the area where the cylinders used to be. Further powered by two M-size motors, one for stearing and one to drive the rear wheel. Receiver unit has been put on the seat of the bike. Furthermore as little as needed has been changed to the model. The steering is somewhat hard to control, due to the bike steering style, but with some practice can be done fairly well.

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Preliminary Windows software test. This video gives a short glimpse of the controller software that I will use myself, but it's focussed more on the screen that is going to be visible to the visitors at the LegoWorld 2010 (Zwolle, The Netherlands) event. This screen so far shows the warehouse status, displaying the parts that are in the warehouse and the number in which they are available still. In the top-right corner you will see a small picture of the model being build and the display in the middle-right is showing the build progress and what the factory has completed and what the current brick being placed is (current brick being encircled in a red line). The mission: The entire factory will consist of a warehouse section with separate storage-bays for an assortment of in total 103 different parts (either different in colour or element-type) storing 16 elements of each type (this means that in total the warehouse will have over 1600 Lego pieces in the warehouse). Next to the warehouse there will be a robot taking care of receiving the parts from the warehouse-robot, which will receive the pieces, line them up for the building robot as well as rotating pieces if the model that is being build requires it to. The last robot is the building-robot, which will retrieve the pieces from the middle robot and then place it within the model being build. All robots in the factory are controlled by 5 NXT programmable bricks all joined in some way by a master-slave setup, where one <b>...</b>

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After Forever playing Equally Destructive during the CD Presentation of their new "After Forever" album at Tivoli (Utrecht, The Netherlands).

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This is part of the technic/mindstorms construction I'm currently working on. The concept is to be able to automaticly build models using this factory model. What you can see in this video is the building arm working above the building table. The arm is able to move left/right throughout the assembly in order to be able to retrieve parts, build on the building table and deliver finished models to the output of the factory. Next to that the arm can obviously move up and down in order to place parts on the model which is on top of the building table. The building table (currently not yet functional, provides 2 axis of movement. The arm will position itself in a fixed position above the building table, and the table will be able to move to the desired position to place the part in the model being constructed. In this video I am moving the arm left/right in order to position the building arm, this will not be the case once the table is finished. The arm is currently being controlled by use of 2 powerfunction IR receivers and 3 motors (1 for moving the arm left/right, 1 for moving the arm up/down and finally 1 for controlling a pneumatic switch to control the mechanism that releases the parts from the building arm. When finished the entire building arm and it's movements will be controlled by an RCX hanging from the trolley the arm is attached to. The final concept of the project is to build a factory that is compact, looks good and is able to build virtually every model you <b>...</b>

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