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As I already mentioned in a previous post, I recently purchased a 4 line LCD display to play around with. It provides an I2C Bus which means that it can be connected to your Arduino or similar microcontroller with only two wires. I could’ve come up with a thousand things to do with this display: using it for showing notifications, as an RSS scroller or as a hardware dashboard with temperatures and statistics. Then I remembered a project I came across once, where someone was using an Arduino and a LCD displaying his twitter feed. ...

In order to obtain our bachelor’s degree every student had to either write a paper on a given subject or participate in a more practice oriented problem-solving project. I chose the latter one and was assigned to Team Gold. The goal of the project was to program Lego NXT Robots using LeJOS so that they could autonomously participate in a game of Team Treasure Trek. Additionally, a simulator had to be developed to play the game in a virtual environment. ...