Our team team was probably one of the few teams to use the NXT module with the minibot. It was probably the slowest minibot on the field, but only about 8-10 teams were able to successfully deploy a minibot at our regional.
Maybe half of those teams were able to reliably launch a minibot.
We used the documents and videos downloaded from
http://www.tetrixrobotics.org/MINDST...lt.aspx?aid=42 for ideas on how to create our minibot with the NXT brick.
We programmed with the software package that comes with the NXT Mindstorms.
Videos of our minibot can be found at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DboK1..._order&list=UL and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W26bP...x=1&playnext=7