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Re: NXT firmware to be open source
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 2 May 2006 22:24:50 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Jordan Bradford wrote:
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From LEGO’s press release:
“The LEGO Group today announced that for the first time it will release as
open source the firmware of the LEGO® MINDSTORMS® microprocessor – the new
NXT brick – the core component of its next generation robotics toolset.
Additionally, the company announced that it will release Software, Hardware
and Bluetooth Developer Kits to its growing global audience of robotics
enthusiasts. The firmware code and three developer kits will be available in
August 2006 in the “Extreme” section of www.mindstorms.com, in conjunction
with the retail availability of LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT.”
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I’d be interested to know if the MUPs or MDPs have any further info on these
developer kits, or have any further info they can share? I assume the dev
environment is Windows based, it would be interesting to know what it’s written
in, and if it looks like it can easily be ported?
ROSCO
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| (...) The LEGO Mindstorms Driver SDK is dual platform (PC and Mac). It is built upon the National Instruments NI-VISA interface. The main driver component is called Fantom. It exposes a set of C functions and C++ classes which let you communicate (...) (18 years ago, 3-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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