<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks Stuart,</div><div><br></div><div>WeDo had not hit my radar, it's not listed in the programming languages matrix here: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms</a> but is in the see also list. WeDo does seem to be slightly less obsolete than my NXT.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 9:43 PM Stuart Brown <<a href="mailto:stuartbrown2@gmail.com">stuartbrown2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Richard<div><br></div><div>Would this work for you? </div><div><a href="https://scratch.mit.edu/wedo" target="_blank">https://scratch.mit.edu/wedo</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Stuart</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 4 Sept 2024 at 21:13, Richard Jones <<a href="mailto:richardandjanenz@gmail.com" target="_blank">richardandjanenz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks Charles, </div><div><br></div><div>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 <span aria-hidden="true"><a href="http://robotmagic.org" target="_blank">http://robotmagic.org</a>, not sure how graphical or capable it is with NXT.<br></span></div><div><span aria-hidden="true"><br></span></div><div><span aria-hidden="true">I'll carry on digging around. <br></span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 8:41 PM Charles Manning <<a href="mailto:cdhmanning@gmail.com" target="_blank">cdhmanning@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Hi Richard, <br>
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.<br>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 4 Sep 2024, 20:27 Richard Jones, <<a href="mailto:richard.jones.1952@gmail.com" target="_blank">richard.jones.1952@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>I'm considering running up my obsolete and unsupported Lego Mindstorms NXT to show my 6 year old grandson.<br></div><div><br></div>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.<br></div><div><br></div><div>There is the open source Lejos route, though I think he's a little young for Java programming.</div><div><br></div><div>Here is a (long) description of Mindstorms: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms_NXT" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms_NXT</a></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Richard<br></div></div>
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