Natrium 42's homebrew kit is an open robot platform that lets you control your RoboDS (pictured right) with an NDS WiFi connection through a web browser interface.

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The first grant came in 2011, robot design was improved and turned into a kit, and a photo licensing strategy was devised as a means of drawing income from the scanning activity.

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Essentially a robotic invention kit, Mindstorms comes complete with a programmable CPU, motors, primitive inter-robot networking, sensors and a software development suite.

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