A new release of the Driver Suite has been uploaded to Source Forge.

Changes:

• Added Dexter Industries GPS driver + test program
• Added Mindsensors Numeric Pad + test program
• Added new "driver" with statistical functions
• Changed HTGYROstartCal in HTGYRO-driver.h to do more sampling for calibration data
• HTRCXreadResp in HTRCX-driver.h now clears all of the response buffer
• Made all calls in TMR-driver.h more robust when used in multiple threads.  No guarantee that this works.

LEGO just released their latest version of the LEGO Digital Designer.

It sports the following updates:

• new look
• improved rendering
• ability to create BI’s (Building Instructions)
• new Welcome screen
• flex tool

LDD is available for both the PC and Mac, and you can download it directly from the LEGO Digital Designer website.

LDD has a large collection of training tutorials to help you get started, and with the various rendering outputs available, you can go from simple, quick renders of your building, to high-quality renderings you can use as background images, or even art!

Robotics Academy (the makers of RobotC) are working on a new virtual environment for your NXT based and VEX based robots.

You’ll be able to drive your robot around on the

• undersea
• outer space
• robotic competition
• mountains

You’ll be able to simulate real-world effects for NXTG, LabVIEW and ROBOTC.

Ideally, you’ll be able to create your own virtual worlds as well.

The expected release date for this, is March 2011.