[chbot] Lego Mindstorms NXT (circa 2006)

[Richard Jones]

Thanks Charles,

I noted that Lejos was active until 2014 or so, and thanks for your efforts
on Lejos and the presentations that you did for ChchRobotics way back then.
I had hoped that by now there would be an MIT Scratch interface for NXT,
but no such luck. With Lego pulling out completely there seems little point
in putting in lots of man hours. I think Hanno Sander has an NXT paid
interface at http://robotmagic.org, not sure how graphical or capable it is
with NXT.

I'll carry on digging around.

On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 8:41 PM Charles Manning <cdhmanning at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Richard,
> I was one of the team that ported Lejos to Mindstorms. The porting library
> was also used by a few other language offerings. IIRC there was also Lua
> and some Smalltalk like interface.
>
> On Wed, 4 Sep 2024, 20:27 Richard Jones, <richard.jones.1952 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm considering running up my obsolete and unsupported Lego Mindstorms
>> NXT to show my 6 year old grandson.
>>
>> Does anyone have recent experience and advice for running Lego NXT? It
>> was supported under vintage Windows and I have Windows 11, Linux and Mac OS
>> available.
>>
>> There is the open source Lejos route, though I think he's a little young
>> for Java programming.
>>
>> Here is a (long) description of Mindstorms:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms_NXT
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Richard
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