Features:

• Tracks relative position
• Measures rotational angle and speed
• Detects contact from any direction
• Measures tilt and acceleration
• Ultra low bias drift of about 10 degrees per hour

All the details, and the chance to buy, can be found on the CruizCore XG1300L website.

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.

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.