[chbot] Lego Mindstorms NXT (circa 2006)

[Stuart Brown]

Hi Richard

Would this work for you?
https://scratch.mit.edu/wedo

Stuart

On Wed, 4 Sept 2024 at 21:13, Richard Jones <richardandjanenz at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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