[chbot] Lego Mindstorms NXT (circa 2006)

[Richard Jones]

Thanks Stuart,

WeDo had not hit my radar, it's not listed in the programming languages
matrix here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms but is in the
see also list. WeDo does seem to be slightly less obsolete than my NXT.

On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 9:43 PM Stuart Brown <stuartbrown2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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