Category: Lego

Peter G.’s Mindstorms blog

Peter Gammie, like myself, is blogging about Lego Mindstorms and in particular, brickOS and Mac OS X. Of particular interest is that he took the OS X USB support from leJOS and hacked it into brickOS's mangled dll (dynamic linker...

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Patch to make leJOS compile with gcc4

When I was trying to build leJOS on Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.3 with gcc4 (from Xcode 2.2): $ gcc_select Current default compiler: gcc version 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5247) I was getting this error: ====> Making leJOS Unix...

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Building brickOS tools on Mac OS X

Here's what I did (based on a combination of info at http://h8300-hms.sourceforge.net/ and The legOS HOWTO installation page) to build GNU binutils, gcc, and brickOS and associated tools on Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.3 with Xcode 2.2:...

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Mindstorms USB IR tower has arrived

The Lego Mindstorms USB IR tower that I bought off eBay has arrived! Let the fun begin!...

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Lego announces new version of Mindstorms: Mindstorms NXT

Wouldn't you know that right after I bought a Mindstorms IR tower off eBay, Lego announces at CES that they are releasing a next-generation Mindstorms product? Well, I can take consolation in the fact that it won't be out until...

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Mindstorms Rubik’s Cube Solver

Wow. I think this is the coolest Mindstorms robot that I've seen: JP Brown's Mindstorms Rubik's Cube Solver

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Ordered a Lego Mindstorms USB IR tower

Having built a simple Mindstorms robot, but not having the ability to program it, I bought a Lego Mindstorms USB IR tower on eBay. I can't wait for it to arrive so I can start messing around with RCX Code, NQC, brickOS (formerly...