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Oct 17, 2010

Inexpensive Solar Power Comes to Lego Mindstorms NXT

For $90 Dexter Industries will sell you a solar panel that provides enough juice to power an NXT control brick and one servo. Surely, Lego Mindstorms Mars missions aren't far behind.

The 9V/250mA panel seems to sync up with your Mindstorms kit easily enough, and if you want expand beyond that the company also offers a bunch of NXT-compatible capacitor packs, battery packs and a connector that lets builders daisy chain up to three panels on a single build.

53 comments:

  1. LizardOctober 17, 2010 at 4:35 PM

    nice. i should pick that up.

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  2. JaceOctober 17, 2010 at 4:38 PM

    Oh if only it weren't so bulky.

    http://jaceland.blogspot.com/

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  3. Car EnthusiastOctober 17, 2010 at 4:50 PM

    Awesome

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  4. GalwarriorOctober 17, 2010 at 4:59 PM

    Unts unts unts ;)

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  5. SimonOctober 17, 2010 at 5:20 PM

    That does seem quite bulky

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  6. ElChristoOctober 17, 2010 at 5:20 PM

    What happened to simple lego? all these gadgets and addons...

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  7. thecatzpajamasOctober 17, 2010 at 5:25 PM

    why do they even make these

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  8. gloseyOctober 17, 2010 at 5:43 PM

    i'd get one

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  9. Miles ProwerOctober 17, 2010 at 5:55 PM

    cool

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  10. 123October 17, 2010 at 5:56 PM

    I wonder how fast it goes

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  11. infostationOctober 17, 2010 at 5:57 PM

    That just looks awesome!

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  12. RezdenOctober 17, 2010 at 6:06 PM

    What? I think this justifies my love for lego.

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  13. CrunkyOctober 17, 2010 at 6:14 PM

    so it can fly nao?

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  14. ProOctober 17, 2010 at 6:26 PM

    I love the mindstorm, but this is a great idea with the solar panels I need them.

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  15. LuigibombOctober 17, 2010 at 6:27 PM

    Thats a bit impractical.

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  16. KoniworldOctober 17, 2010 at 6:30 PM

    nice post... we can see that we keep creating ha?

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  17. DrackarOctober 17, 2010 at 6:34 PM

    The potential of something like this is kinda huge.

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  18. Synthetic SoireeOctober 17, 2010 at 6:44 PM

    solar power is so rad. love it

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  19. MTL beerOctober 17, 2010 at 6:47 PM

    I so want one lol

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  20. Pig DisgustingOctober 17, 2010 at 6:50 PM

    god dang i love legos

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  21. swizzforOctober 17, 2010 at 7:10 PM

    that looks awesome

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  22. newdaysofgloryOctober 17, 2010 at 7:16 PM

    wow that would be nice

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  23. Shelby FoxOctober 17, 2010 at 7:20 PM

    That's awesome, and environmentally friendly....and lego (best part)

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  24. AnonymousOctober 17, 2010 at 7:40 PM

    90$ isnt much for this
    like it

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  25. Telia TuliOctober 17, 2010 at 8:37 PM

    i'd like to try this out

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  26. MutefoxOctober 17, 2010 at 8:48 PM

    ...and I thought Legos couldn't get any better

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  27. IchiranduOctober 17, 2010 at 8:56 PM

    Toys are getting cooler and cooler these days

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  28. icøn¡cOctober 17, 2010 at 9:04 PM

    that's too cool, cut the cost on mars rovers by a cool couple mil.

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  29. IndustrialHazeOctober 17, 2010 at 9:26 PM

    wow lego is goign above and beyond
    i remember back when you had to make lego people out of bricks

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  30. Fred StevensOctober 17, 2010 at 9:53 PM

    Looks pretty nifty'

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  31. Pandor42October 17, 2010 at 10:11 PM

    Amazing, lego keeps leveling up and keeping the interest of just about everyone.

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  32. ikatashiOctober 17, 2010 at 10:21 PM

    Im comin at you bro!

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  33. zeNOctober 17, 2010 at 10:39 PM

    this is just fkn awesome!

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  34. mirkOctober 17, 2010 at 11:11 PM

    I'd buy one.

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  35. gombyOctober 17, 2010 at 11:40 PM

    i played with these in my engineering class. OMG so fun

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  36. nikefootballbh08October 17, 2010 at 11:41 PM

    very cool

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  37. JHenryOctober 17, 2010 at 11:52 PM

    90 buck isn't too bad

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  38. Senor IncognitoOctober 18, 2010 at 12:26 AM

    when I was young, LEGO meant a bunch of blocks that you could put together and nothing more :D

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  39. MarioOctober 18, 2010 at 12:36 AM

    i'd like to get one ):

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  40. IshuOctober 18, 2010 at 12:39 AM

    Woah, so cool and for 90 bucks??? excellent!

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  41. UnknownOctober 18, 2010 at 2:02 AM

    That thing is awesome. I didn't really follow lego for over a decade. had no idea it got so advanced.

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  42. CarlOctober 18, 2010 at 2:24 AM

    Imagine what the toys of the future will look like!

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  43. BlakeOctober 18, 2010 at 3:43 AM

    solar power is also coming back to the white house! talk about exciting

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  44. kabelloOctober 18, 2010 at 4:11 AM

    haha lego inovating again, and lego actually is very expansive

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  45. KartoffelnOctober 18, 2010 at 4:20 AM

    Really? Lego?

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  46. AnonymousOctober 18, 2010 at 4:49 AM

    creepy machine , looks useful

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  47. befashionistic.blogspot.com/October 18, 2010 at 5:47 AM

    future is here

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  48. SparrowOctober 18, 2010 at 7:37 AM

    as more and more people explore the tech of solar energy, the cheaper it will get.

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  49. Suciô SanchezOctober 18, 2010 at 8:23 AM

    Wouldn't get very far where I live for the next 6 months.

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  50. AnonymousOctober 18, 2010 at 1:39 PM

    I had Mindstorms when I was a kid.. this could make me dig it out again.

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  51. The Game Store GuyOctober 18, 2010 at 1:57 PM

    Now if we could only get this to be a legit means of energy production.

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  52. VDogOctober 19, 2010 at 5:15 PM

    sick

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  53. AngelOctober 23, 2010 at 5:58 AM

    lego is effin awesome to do this.

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