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Re: Not totally satisfied with the Lego Mindstorm concept: Mathematical variables and direct connection PC/mechanical device
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Wed, 24 Apr 2002 15:25:26 GMT
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Stig, a couple years ago I was in the same place you are. I got one for xmas
when it first came out. I was rather disappointed in the limitations of the
LM, so I gave it to a 13 year old budding engineer. In retrospect, I guess I
just didn't have enough imagination to see what you could really do within
those limitations.
Well, back in January I stumbled into some rather spectacular mindstorms
creations that woke me up. The "Lego Rubix Cube Solver" was the one that
impressed me the most: http://jpbrown.i8.com/cubesolver.html Be sure to
poke around this site, because he's got a lot of interesting creations.
There's several alternatives to the rather limited brick language Legos
supplies. The most obvious is NQC, which uses the same firmware and language
similar to C. There's LejOS, which uses Java, and the firmware is a Java
virtual machine. There's pbForth, a Forth language that runs entirely on the
brick. For the really hard-core, there's the soon-to-be-renamed LegOS, which
uses real C and a cross-compiler.
There's a lot of really good books out there to help you with this. Search
for "lego mindstorms" on Amazon and you'll find quite a pile. I started with
Dave Baum's "Definitive Guide to Lego Mindstorms", and I highly recommend
that one (your mileage may vary). Dave Baum is the creator of NQC. There's
at least two books on LejOS.
In lugnet.robotics, "Stig Anders Mastad" <stigam@student.sv.uio.no> writes:
> Hi group!
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>
> THE POINTS
> As a suprise I got a Lego Mindstorm set (LM-set) for Christmas. However, =
> I'm not totally satisfied with the LM-set:
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