[vox-tech] robots and mindstorm

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Wed, 26 Jun 2002 08:51:19 -0700 (PDT)


Every search I did turned up the Linux Doc site
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Lego/

Also found this.
http://www.battlebricks.com/links.jsp

Some day I'll get a mindstorm kit.  'Real Soon Now'

-sp

On Tue, 25 June 2002, "Mark K. Kim" wrote

> 
> No experience, but I thought you might want to know I
read an article
> about some guy writing his own OS for the Mindstorm
because he thought the
> software wasn't taking enough advantage of the
hardware.  I think it was
> The Robot Magazine (www.robotmag.com), and the
article is from about two
> to three years ago.  I *think* he used gcc under
Linux but I don't
> remember.  What he worked on may be what LegOS is now
> (legos.sourceforge.net).  I'd look for the article
for you except I'm not
> anywhere near my magazine collection right now.  The
article went through
> quite a bit of the hardware details and interesting
tidbits on memory
> management and other things.
> 
> -Mark
> 
> On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> 
> > does anyone here play with lego mindstorm?
> >
> > let me rephrase that -- does anyone here play with
lego mindstorm *under
> > linux*?  i assume there are open source tools to
download the firmware
> > and program the RCX.   i'd like to chat about your
experiences.
> >
> > pete
> >
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