====== Mindstorms overview ======

===== What is LEGO Mindstorms? =====

**LEGO Mindstorms is an educational kit, with which you can:**
  * build robots,
  * build automatics installations,
  * communicate with them:
    * f.e. by Bluetooth or USB,
  * programing them.

**In the kit you can find:**
  * 'brick' - CPU,
  * electronic sensors,
  * servomotors,
  * LEGO blocks.

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**With sensors, the possibility of programming and communicating with 'brick', it's possible to:**
  * load programmed actions,
  * manual control the robot,
  * interact robot with environment,
  * detect barriers and aims.


===== Mindstorms NXT =====

Mindstorms NXT is the successor of Robotics Invention System 2.0.\\
It can be used to build models of embedded systems, which can be used in every day life.

===== More about Mindstorms =====

  * [[http://mindstorms.lego.com/]]
  * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms]]
  * [[http://www.robonet.pl/?net/robotest/lego-mindstorms-nxt]]
  * [[http://www.robonet.pl/?shop&p=lego_nxt]]