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Just in time for summer, the ROBOTC dev-team has released the first Public BETA of “ROBOTC for Arduino”. The Arduino is a cool, low-cost embedded controller board that is great for learning the basics of robotics, electronics and creative engineering. The new version of ROBOTC has support for all of the popular official Arduino boards - Diecimila, Duemilanove, Uno, MEGA 1280 and MEGA 2560.

Over the past few months, the ROBOTC Development team has been updating all of the ROBOTC documentation and moving it to our new ROBOTC Wiki website. This new Wiki will contain a full in-depth function reference for all ROBOTC platforms. The eventual goal is to have the Wiki be the central location for all ROBOTC documentation.

The Robot Virtual World team is proud to announce a brand new virtual environment: The Ruins of Atlantis! European, Asian, [...]

We came across an article about a great initiative that’s happening in Africa. A program called AFRON, or the African [...]

NeXT-Generation, over on the ROBOTC forums, posted a very cool project he’s been working on for the last two months.  [...]

Full credit for the work behind this post goes to ROBOTC user Matthieu V. Thanks Matthieu! The VEX LCD is a [...]

We’ll be continually updating this blog post to put up any awesome videos we grab from the 2012 FIRST World [...]

Here's a neat video we found of a user who made a Pong or Brick Breaker type game in ROBOTC.

Got a new VEX Speaker? VEX Robotics just announced (and released) their new Speaker accessory for the VEX Cortex Microcontroller. This cool new speaker will allow you to play tones, sounds and wave (.wav) sound files from your VEX Cortex.

There have been reports of the VEX Cortex locking up when using the new Integrated Motor Encoders. The root cause [...]

Robot Virtual Worlds (RVW) has announced a new release scheduled for this Friday, April 13, 2012! Among the modifications in this [...]

Mark Crosbie over at www.mastincrosbie.com put together a really nice library for the NXTBee. The article provides detailed information how his NXTBee library works and Sample Programs to try out a few behaviors.

VEX Robotics has released the following information on their website: The VEX Robotics technical support team has identified an issue that [...]

One of the major improvements recently made to ROBOTC was the ability to “Automatically Update the VEX Cortex” and “Automatically [...]

Laurens over at Robot Square wrote up a nice tutorial on how to use Bluetooth communication with ROBOTC. Take a look at the examples!

The VEX Cortex is an incredibly powerful and versatile microcontroller. Part of what makes it so versatile is the basic [...]

ROBOTC 3.08 has been released. Click on the article to see the changelog!

ROBOTC 3.06 now includes functionality to support the new VEX Integrated Encoder Modules! The VEX Integrated Encoder Modules (IEMs) replace the [...]

Based off a modified version of the NXT shoot bot, the automatic tortoise feeder has three main components: a top feeding food hopper with a motor operated paddle that dispenses food, a color sensor for line following, and a reverse mounted touch sensor which acts as like a pull trigger.

hmoor14 put together a VEX robot that is able to balance itself and can also take a few punches too! :) Take a look!