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WiigoBot, The Perfect Game
12:57 in Hardware, Robotics, Software by fini
Nice combo gadget! LEGO Mindstorms NXT robot playing a perfect game of Wii Sports Bowling!
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LEGO NTX Firmware Open Sourced
12:05 in Hardware, News, Robotics, Software by fini
LEGO has released their latest robotics firmware for MINDSTORMS NXT as Open Source under their own License (I haven’t look long at it, but it is most likely derived from an existing common license).
You can now start developing your own LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT firmware version. By acception the “LEGO Open Source License Agreement” below, you will be able to look over the shoulders of our firmware developers. This will enable you to change the functionality from the very lowest hardware abstration level to the user ineration level within the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT. The Open Source files include all the source files needed for the ARM7 ATMEL microcontroller and the 8-bit AVR ATMEL microcontroller.
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MS Robotics Studio released
14:30 in News, Robotics, Software by fini
Microsoft has released their first version of Robotics Studio for Windows Visual Studio 2005. Since it is free and I have a msdn subscription via my work (meaning I don’t have to pay for Visual Studio), I am going to do some tests with the LEGO Mindstorms NXT very soon.
Microsoft Robotics Group has released Microsoft Robotics Studio (1.0) for Web download (see press release). Microsoft Robotics Studio is a Windows-based environment for academic, hobbyist and commercial developers to easily create robotics applications across a wide variety of hardware. The download installs Microsoft Robotics Studio along with samples and tutorials. Tandy Trower provides this welcome letter which includes a list of changes since the last Community Technical Preview (CTP). Download Microsoft Robotics Studio and join the Microsoft Robotics Studio community through our Newsgroup.
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LEGO Mindstorms NXT has landed!
21:09 in Hardware, News, Robotics, Software by fini
The waiting is finally over my two LEGO Mindstorms NXT sets arrived today. And I have been spinning around myself in pure joy for hours. I was gladly surprised that the software is both for Windows and Macintosh, although the really interesting software will come from third-parties, there is already being worked on support for LUA, C, Java and some more languages, and the one I am aiming for is the Java language so that I can make interfaces between my own Droids API and LEGO Mindstorms machines, in the future perhaps my Droid Simulator can work directly with the NXT through bluetooth and some yet to be written über-ware.
I spent some time today looking at what other people have already made with the NXT sets, and I must say I’m pretty impressed at the stuff I saw, and it surely puts my ambitions even higher than before, although it shall be no secret that my main interest is in the software part, I am definately going to enjoy building some nice looking contraptions.
Photos, more impressions, review and contraptions will soon hit this site, so stay clear – LEGO Mindstorms NXT is here!!!
