= News = * 2012-12-14: The !MathWorks awards the '''[http://mindstorms.lfb.rwth-aachen.de/index.php/de/news/1-aktuelle-nachrichten/352-team-award-gewinner-winter-201112 MATLAB Team-Award]''' prize on the Faculty Day 2012. * 2012-12-11 - 2012-12-21: RWTH Aachen Univeristy first semester student laboratory 2012/2013 - [http://www.lfb.rwth-aachen.de/mindstorms MATLAB meets LEGO Mindstorms] - takes place. * 2012-02-08: {*} '''RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox v4.07 (stable) is now available.''' * 2011-12-13 - 2011-12-22: RWTH Aachen Univeristy first semester student laboratory 2011/2012 - [http://www.lfb.rwth-aachen.de/mindstorms MATLAB meets LEGO Mindstorms] - takes place. * 2011-12-09: The !MathWorks awards the '''[http://mindstorms.lfb.rwth-aachen.de/index.php/de/news/1-aktuelle-nachrichten/235-matlabteamawardpreistraegerws1011 MATLAB Team-Award]''' prize on the Faculty Day 2011. * 2011-12-07: '''"Key Factors for Freshmen Education Using MATLAB and LEGO Mindstorms"''' is presented on the ICIRA 2011 conference [http://www.springerlink.com/content/l60770347801q4mt/ (paper link)]. * 2011-12-06: [http://www.mindsqualls.net/ '''Math4NXT'''], a library to control NXT bricks remotely from Wolfram Mathematica, has now included support for our MotorControl technology. * 2011-11-16: {o} RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox v4.04-octave for '''Octave''' (first beta version) is now available (thanks to Andrew Gee and Patrick Gosling). * 2011-10-19: {o} RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox v4.06 is now available (uses new Bluetooth object on 64Bit systems). * 2011-09-22: {o} RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox v4.05 is now available (USB 64Bit support). * 2011-08-02: [http://www.mindsqualls.net/ '''MindSqualls'''], a library to control NXT bricks remotely from .net applications, has now [http://www.mindsqualls.net/MotorControl.aspx included support] for our MotorControl technology. * 2011-07-07: [http://code.google.com/p/nxt-python '''nxt-python'''], a module to control NXT bricks remotely from Python, has now [http://code.google.com/p/nxt-python/wiki/Versions#Version_2.2.x included support] for our MotorControl technology. * 2011-06-08: The freshmen student project '''MATLAB meets LEGO Mindstorms''' is presented on the [http://www.teaching-learning.eu/ TeachING-LearnING.EU] Symposium 2011. * 2011-04-06: Beena Ahmed and Karawan Alsaleh rated the RWTH Mindstorms NXT Toolbox as '''most effective in meeting the learning objectives''' of their education robotic freshmen course. Their evaluations showed that the students were able to improve their '''developing programming skills much better''' using the toolbox than using other programming languages like RobotC [http://www.psut.edu.jo/sites/EDUCON/program/contribution1417_b.pdf pdf]. * 2010-12-14 - 2010-12-23: RWTH Aachen Univeristy first semester student laboratory 2010/2011 - [http://www.lfb.rwth-aachen.de/mindstorms MATLAB meets LEGO Mindstorms] - takes place. * 2010-12-10: The !MathWorks awards the '''[http://mindstorms.lfb.rwth-aachen.de/index.php/de/award MATLAB Team-Award]''' prize on the Faculty Day 2010. * 2010-11-22: The '''[http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/teaching-practical-engineering-for-freshman-students-using-the-rwth-mindstorms-nxt-toolbox-for-matla book chapter]''' "Teaching Practical Engineering for Freshman Students using the RWTH – Mindstorms NXT Toolbox for MATLAB" is published as part of the book [http://www.intechopen.com/books/show/title/matlab---modelling--programming-and-simulations Matlab - Modelling, Programming and Simulation] (see '''[wiki:Press Press]'''). * 2010-10-11: {*} '''RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox v4.04 (stable) is now available.''' * 2010-08-10: Announcement of the The !MathWorks '''MATLAB Team Award''' prize [http://mindstorms.lfb.rwth-aachen.de/index.php/de/news winner] for the best MATLAB meets LEGO Mindstorms student project 2009/2010. * 2010-06-09: The freshmen student project '''MATLAB meets LEGO Mindstorms''' is presented on the RWTH Aachen University Studieninformationstag 2010. * 2010-05-17: Article in '''''IEEE Transaction on Education''''', '''MATLAB Meets LEGO Mindstorms - A Freshman Introduction Course Into Practical Engineering''', now published: vol. 53, no. 2, pp.306—317''' [http://www.lfb.rwth-aachen.de/files/publications/2010/BEH10e.txt (BibTeX)], [http://www.lfb.rwth-aachen.de/files/publications/2010/BEH10e.pdf (PDF Download)]''' * 2010-04-24: We've now got a [http://www.mindstorms.rwth-aachen.de/trac/roadmap Roadmap] for future releases. * 2010-04-02: The toolbox is now officially featured by ''The !MathWorks'' to control LEGO Mindstorms robots, see '''[http://www.mathworks.com/academia/lego-mindstorms-nxt-software The MathWorks in Academia]''' * 2010-01-29: The project team of the first semester project MATLAB meets LEGO Mindstorms wins the 1st prize of the '''RWTH Aachen University education award 2009'''. * 2009-12-14 - 2009-12-23: RWTH Aachen Univeristy first semester student laboratory 2009/2010 - [http://www.lfb.rwth-aachen.de/mindstorms MATLAB meets LEGO Mindstorms] - takes place. * 2009-12-08: Invited article in relatif Campus-Magazin Aachen, '''MATLAB meets LEGO Mindstorms - hands-on Projekt für Erstsemester''' '''[http://svn.lfb.rwth-aachen.de/mindstorms/documents/downloads/publications/relatif_No_08_Mindstorms.pdf (PDF Download)]''' * 2009-11-25: {*} '''RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox v4.03 (stable) is now available.''' * 2009-10-14: The freshman project MATLAB meets LEGO Mindstorms contributes to the RWTH Aachen University future education concept ''Studierende im Fokus der Exzellenz''. The RWTH gets the German national education award ''Exzellente Lehre'' of 1 Mio. EUR, promoted by the ''Stifterverband der Deutschen Wissenschaft'' and the ''Kultusministerkonferenz der Länder (KMK)''. * 2009-11-13: Due to problems with air conditioning in our server room, the website server was down for the weekend (till Nov 16) to avoid hardware failure. We are very sorry for the inconvenience and are hopefully constantly back online now. * 2009-10-28: Article in '''''IEEE Transaction on Education''''', '''MATLAB Meets LEGO Mindstorms - A Freshman Introduction Course Into Practical Engineering''', '''[http://www.lfb.rwth-aachen.de/files/publications/2010/BEH10e.pdf (PDF Download)]''' * 2009-10-06: {*} '''RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox v4.02 (stable) is now available.''' * 2009-08-31: {o} RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox v4.01 is now available. * 2009-07-24: New design of [wiki:Download download-page], all versions available for direct download now. * 2009-07-20: {o} '''RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox v4.00 (beta) is now available (next generation motor control).''' * 2009-07-17: RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox v3.00 (beta) is now available. * 2009-05-19: New webpage layout: Many thanks to André Bell for managing and creating the cool Trac style sheets. * 2009-04-17: RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox v2.04 milestone (internal development, available in svn folder "tags") * 2009-01-23: {*} '''RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox v2.03 is now available! (optimized motor control!)''' * 2009-01-07: Article in Acta Polytechnica: Journal of Advanced Engineering, 2008 [[BR]] '''First Steps into Practical Engineering for Freshman Students Using MATLAB and LEGO Mindstorms Robots''', '''[http://svn.lfb.rwth-aachen.de/mindstorms/documents/downloads/publications/Behrens2008d.pdf (PDF Download)]''' * 2008-12-10 - 2008-12-219 RWTH Aachen Univeristy first semester student laboratory 2008/2009 - [http://www.lfb.rwth-aachen.de/mindstorms MATLAB meets LEGO Mindstorms] - takes place. * 2008-12-10: 2nd education project using this toolbox took place at the RWTH Aachen University ([http://www.lfb.rwth-aachen.de/mindstorms MATLAB meets LEGO Mindstorms]) * 2008-11-12: RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox v2.02 milestone (internal development, available in svn folder "tags") * 2008-10-27: RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox v2.01 milestone (internal development, available in svn folder "tags") * 2008-09-30: {*} '''RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox v2.00 is now available! (USB support!)''' * 2008-08-21: '''The !MathWorks''' publishes '''"Freshman Engineers Build MATLAB Powered LEGO Robots"''' article in [http://www.mathworks.com/company/newsletters/ ''MATLAB Digest | Academic Edition'']. ([http://svn.lfb.rwth-aachen.de/mindstorms/documents/downloads/publications/MATLABDigestAcademicEdt_Aug08_AachenUniv.pdf PDF Download]) * 2008-07-18: {*} '''RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox v2.00beta is now available! (USB support!)''' * Proposal for new toolbox commands with USB support, discussion about changes for toolbox version 2.00. * 2008-05-15: Poster presentation on the 12th international student conference '''POSTER 2008''' (award winner {*}) [[BR]] '''Practicing Engineering in a First-Year Student Project: MATLAB meets LEGO Mindstorms''' * 2008-04-29: NXT-USB communication successfully tested (using official LEGO Mindstorms NXT Fantom Driver Version 1.02 on Windows and libusb on Linux). * 2008-04-17: A new voluntary '''student workshop''' is established (see [wiki:Projects Projects]) * 2008-04-01: Project article in the '''RWTHinsight''' magazine is published (see [wiki:Press In the Press]). * 2008-02-06: RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox Web Page is published * 2008-01-29: {*} '''RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox v1.00 is now available! ''' * 2008-01-28: 50th anniversary of the LEGO brick * 2007-12-17 - 2008-01-11: First education project using this toolbox took place at the RWTH Aachen University ([http://www.lfb.rwth-aachen.de/mindstorms MATLAB meets LEGO Mindstorms])