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Re: Mindstorms 2.0 and MAC users
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 5 Jan 2006 23:48:51 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Eric Sophie forwarded:
> someone who runs Mindstorm with a Mac, maybe with NQC who
> could get me going please, Mac
Eric, feel free to pass along my email to this person if you like - I'll be
glad to help (it's brdavis#AT#SIGN#iusb#DOT#edu). The short answer is there are
a number of ways to run RIS 2.0 from a Mac. There's a LEGO environment called
Robolab that is a graphical language that runs native on a Mac (it's also
significantly more powerful than the RIS language for most folks). It can be
bought directly from LEGO's educational arm:
http://www.legoeducation.com/
Or, more specificly:
http://www.legoeducation.com/store/detail.aspx?ID=371
Another option is NQC - for the Mac, there's a nice GUI interface that runs very
well (I've never had a crash, actually, and it will even handl things like the
Swan firmware and Spybots), called, logically enough, MacNQC:
http://homepage.mac.com/rbate/MacNQC/
MacNQC is currently what I use for all my programming, although I started on
Robolab and have used RIS on occassion. Note that because the Mac OSX is UNIX
underneath, there are a lot of other things that might work on it... but I've
yet to try to find out. I highly recommend MacNQC if you like a C-based text
language for the RCX with a shallow learning curve - it's a wonderful
implementation maintained by Robert Bate.
--
Brian Davis
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| Hello all, I spend a good deal of time answering questions via email, but this one I was unsure of. Could one of my fellow robotics experts be helpful with this question, many thanks! Q: "I HAVE JUST BOUGHT THE MINDSTORM 2.0 (sorry for the shouting (...) (19 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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