OT: Lego Mindstorm

From: Alex Holden <alex_at_linuxhacker.org>
Date: Mon Jan 22 08:55:20 2001

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Ram Meenakshisundaram wrote:
> The CD contains the tutorial, case-based programming tool and the firmware.
> The latest firmware can be downloaded from the mindstorms site.
> The case-based programming tool is quite weak. I would consider using NQC
> or legOS which is much more powerful and easier to use. Very C like for NQC
> and legOS uses GCC...

Don't forget pbForth (Forth for the RCX) and Lejos/TinyVM (Java for the
RCX). The RCX has an 8 bit Hitachi H8/3294 with 16KB of ROM and 32K of
RAM, so it has the potential to do far more than the included software
allows.

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