I'm new to it and currently using the visual flow-chart like language that the Lego Mindstorms IDE uses. I'm impressed with how readable the diagramming language is but missing the flexiblity of actual code. I'm imagining complicated projects I want to try out and don't really want to implement them as a gigantic flow chart! lol :) I kn...
I would like to learn how to write software for controlling robots. Is Lego MindStorms a good choice for this? Are there better alternatives? I'd prefer MindStorms, but after reading a couple of articles I get the impression that Lego has stopped research and development of MindStorms. What are your suggestions? ...
At my robotics club we are trying to get the multi-threading capability to work on LEGO Mindstorms NXT, but it seems that the threads are interfering with each other and causing the program to stop entirely. Does anyone know how to correctly implement multi-threading on the NXT visual programming environment. ...
At present, I'm using a C-like language (NXC) to control a LEGO MINDSTORMS robot. That C-like language doesn't have support for generics (or, not being C++, classes. But I digress). However, I read in an outdated C++ book that either C or C++ has a file called generic.h, which contains helpful preprocessor macros (ie name2 and declare) f...
I am a high school student and am thinking of making a robot that draws using different colored markers. I would like some guidance as to where I should start with this program. What I want to do is to construct a program on the computer where you could draw the path you want the robot to draw and then using the bluetooth dongle and the...
Running Windows 7 and the Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 IDE. The Windows bluetooth manager shows the NXT is connected and the NXT shows up in the Windows list of bluetooth devices. When I try to connect from the Lego IDE, however, I get a message that says "Error: NXT Bluetooth passkey confirmation failed". I entered the pairing key on the NX...
Is there C# (.NET) library for Lego Mindstorm NXT, which is up-to-date? NXT.NET for LEGO Mindstorms last update 18.04.2008 http://nxtnet.codeplex.com/ MindSqualls last update 05.06.2007 http://www.mindsqualls.net/ Lego .NET last update 07.04.2005 http://www.dcl.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/research/lego.NET/weblog/ I know, there is MS...
Is there any way to add any sort of debugging to a Lego Mindstorms program, when using the NXT drag-and-drop environment? It would be nice to be able to monitor the status of the various sensors, but even knowing what step in the program was running would be nice. ...
As a student teacher i am very interested in how effective "mini languages" such as Scratch, Logo, Alice and Lego mindstorms are in teaching the pupil the core concepts of programming such as variables, fuctions and loops. Is one "mini language" better than another for teaching these basic core concepts? ...
I've got 30 unopened Lego Mindstorms kits that I'd love to use in my intro programming class to do some simple robotics stuff at the end of the year. We're using Python in the class, so I'd prefer there to be a way for the kids to write the programs in Python. Unfortunately, these are old kits with RCX bricks - not the newer NXT ones, so...
I am thinking about buying a mindstorms kit (I don't currently own one but I have used 1.0 at university) and I am a bit unsure as to the benefits of 2.0 over 1.0. I have seen other posts on the subject all saying generally 2.0 is better but I have some more specific questions about this that I can't seem to find any answers on. Apart f...