Fun with LEGO® MINDSTORMS® at January Meeting

Everyone enjoyed seeing and trying out the LEGO® MINDSTORMS® robots at the January 22, 2010 meeting of the Utah Valley LabVIEW User group, held at Thanksgiving Point.

More importantly, everyone was impressed and enthused for the opportunity to teach and help elementary school kids to learn robotics and programming as Will, Russ and Ron talked about the Mindstorms league and yearly competition to be held again this year at Lagoon.

Kids use a simplified programming language to create robots that compete by following a line or running a maze, sumo wrestling and other tasks. Under the hood the robots are really running on LabVIEW, and so everyone got a chance to get hands on with the LabVIEW Add-on for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT.

Stayed tuned for information on our next scheduled meeting in late March or early April. We saw several new faces at this meeting and the group continues to grow, so plan to attend and meet other LabVIEW programmers.


Wall follower robot

Sumo wrestler robot

As always, for questions or to join our mailing list please send email to uvlabview@gmail.com.

January 2010 Meeting: LEGO® MINDSTORMS®

The January meeting of the Utah Valley LabVIEW User Group will be held 12:00pm to 1:00pm, Friday, January 22, 2010 at:


Thanksgiving Point Executive Suites
2975 West Executive Parkway
Lehi, Utah 84043

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The topic of the meeting is LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT - Powered by NI LabVIEW, presented by Will Gardner, Russ Randle and Ron Terry of Boeing.

See robots created with LEGO MINDSTORMS and try some hands-on. Learn how to join or create a LEGO MINDSTORMS league in your area and hear Will, Russ and Ron tell they are helping to teach 5th and 6th grade students about robotics and programming using LEGO MINDSTORMS.

This promises to be a very fun and interesting meeting, so schedule to attend with us! Lunch will be provided, please register or send email to: uvlabview@gmail.com

This meeting is open to LabVIEW users or anyone interested in learning more about LabVIEW.

For questions or to join our mailing list please send email to uvlabview@gmail.com.