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A note to the reader: some of these links may be unreachable. I'mleaving them here if only to give credit where credit is due. Neweritems are added to the bottom of each section, so look there for news.

Lego Spike is the latest application of their research. Photo: Lego Back to basics. I remember when the original Lego Mindstorms, called the Robotics Invention System, came out back in 1998.
Lego Mindstorms Rcx 2.0 Software Mac. View and Download LEGO 9747 Robotics Invention Systems 1.5 building instructions online. 9747 Robotics Invention Systems 1.5 Toy pdf manual download. Instead of the LEGO RIS software, you can use BricxCC to write programs for the RCX. It's not graphical as the LEGO software but is intended to teach programming instead of drawing blocks on screen.

The LEGO®MINDSTORMS(tm) (#9719) product is a robot-kit-in-a-box. Itconsists of a computer module (the 'RCX(tm)'), and an inventory ofmany TECHNICS(tm) parts. It appears to be a productized version ofthe MIT Programmable Brick, as the following table will show you.

box	size	sensors	motors	url
Cricket:	4x6	2	2	url
RCX:	8x12	3	3	url
Brick:	9x13	6	4	url

The LEGO-Robotics Mailing List

A group of people have figured out how to talk to the RCX fromoperating systems unsupported by The LEGO Group. Wired Online has noticed us.

This group of people gathers at the lego-robotics mailing list.You may subscribe to this list by sending asubscription request. Nothing special is needed in the subject orbody of the message. You can also get off thelist. You can also read the mailing list via HTTP (web pages) or via NNTP at LUGNET, and if you want to receivemessages in digest format, LUGNET also offers news-by-mail delivery withseveral digest options.

General MINDSTORMS Info

You can buy the MINDSTORMS RIS (Robotics Invention System) at the stores listed below (presuming they have it in stock), and many fine toy outlets. Also available are RIS extension kits. Also available are two other, less capable, MINDSTORMS sets: RDS and DDK. Fred Martin has a robot builder's guide.

Places to buy MINDSTORMS (not a comprehensive list):

The Construction Site in Waltham, MA
Active Robots (UK)

Erik Brok has an introduction toprogramming with MINDSTORMS page.

Kin W. Lau has a page of resources for using MINDSTORMS in education.Franz-Michael S. Mellbin has one also.

Books

Jonathan Knudsen has written an O'Reilly book onLEGO MINDSTORMS. You can buy it at Amazon.He's got a bunchof links to LEGO and MINDSTORMS resources.

Michael Gasperi has, with Dave Baum, Ralph Hempel, and Luis Villa,written a book entitled ExtremeMINDSTORMS.

Joe Nagata's LEGO MINDSTORMS Idea Book

Mario and Giulio Ferrari, with Ralph Hempel as technical editor,have written BuildingRobots with LEGO MINDSTORMS.

Core LEGO MINDSTORMS Programming: Unleash the Power of the Java Platform by Brian Bagnall

Jin Sato's LEGO(r)MINDSTORMS(tm): THE MASTER'S TECHNIQUE is an excellent teachingbook on the details of how to put lego pieces together in ways you maynot have thought of before; ultimately those techniques are used tocreate MIBO, a dual-RCX, six motor dog. Slashdot Review.

Jim West has a page covering Mindstorms Books.

Notes

Todd Graham is working on a remote-control and remote-viewing robot he calls a Telerobot.

Cindy Salwen pointed out a description of the protocol for the serial interfacebetween the computer and the Dacta Control lab. This may or may notbe related to the protocol used by the RCX, but if you're reading thispage, it's probably interesting information anyway. She alsocontributes another URL: National Instruments (LabVIEW)pages. Robolab is available for sale from Pitsco.

FredMartin, arguably the father of the RCX (well, given that LEGOredesigned the Programmable Brick from the ground up for productionreasons, the *grand*father), has a page on LEGO MINDSTORMS.

Kekoa Proudfootsays 'toast that warranty!' He took apart his RCX and took somepictures of the inside of it. Healso looked up the numbers for some of the chips. Peter Ljungstrandbought a CyberMaster kit, disassembled the main unit, and took pictures.

Patrick R. Gili has some notes on disassembling the RCX

Dave Baum says that RCX toRCX communication is pretty simple. There's a low level command inthe RCX to send a message which contains a single 8 bit number aspayload (plus the protocol 'wrapper'). The RCX also remembers thelast 'message' it has seen, and this value can be used to makedecisions. Pretty basic stuff, but still enough to do some reasonablethings.

Dave also talks about the various LEGOmotors. The motors that come with MS are the 5225 Gear Motor.Such motors may be purchased at LEGO Shop at Home. Philippe Hurbainhas comparedLego 9 volt motors.

Dave is also 'pretty sure' there are 32 global variables that can beused in RCX coding.

Peter Liu says that 'Do you byte, when I knock?' is the key to UnlockFirmware().

Jonathan Woodward was curious about which colors of LEGO reflect infrared thebest.

Matt Jadud and Greg Hanek at Indiana University are doing a lotwith LEGO Robots.

So are Carlos Raez and Brenda Groff of the Fort Wayne campus.

Some students in a Luxembourg boarding school have a LEGOMINDSTORMS users' group called Robobull.

Dean Husby has building instructions for a device which expands theRCX's I/O called the (MS)2 Expander

ELPMIS trains students inSingapore in Lego Mindstorms, robolab and also RIS.

Building

Lego robotics invention system 2.0 software download

Jim Studt built a public Magic 8 Ball. Enter yourquestion and press the Ask button, and you see a video of an RCXspinning the 8 ball, along with the final answer that floats to thetop.

René Schalburg wrote Creating aSpider Robot using LEGO-MINDSTORMS.

Doug Carlson has a four-wheel synchro robotwhich can move in any direction. He uses two angle sensors (availablefrom Pitsco/Dacta), and can make it move in a perfect square.

Wes Matchett built a differenttype of synchro drive.

Gavin Smyth has pictures of a walkerthat uses universal joints to make the leg rods 'bend'.

Alex Wetmore built a robotic platform using theplans for the adder/subtracter found on Leo's LEGO. The platformallows you the robot to get the normal four motions (forward, reverse,spin left, spin right) with a perfectly straight forward andreverse. One of the motors is used to move the robot forward andbackwards. To turn the robot left and right you use the other motor.

Fredrik Glöckner created a triple gait cycle hexapodusing the CyberMaster. He has other TECHNICS models.

Bill Clagett has a few TECHNICS and MINDSTORMS creations.

Robert Fay has posted pictures and a QuickTime movie of his new verticalmill.

Ben Erwin has the only site with K-12 RCX-related lessonplans (that he knows of).

Henrik Hautop Lund is the head of LEGO Lab at the University ofAarhus.

Ben Williamson has built several robots, including:

The FetchBot searches for dark objects to grab, lift and depositelsewhere. The grabber and the arm are driven by one motor. Thepage includes an animation of the arm grabbing a block, and photosof the gearing and cams that make it work.

The Truck is a robotic tractor-trailer vehicle with rack-and-pinionsteering. The tractor contains sensors and the steering and drive motors,while the trailer carries the RCX controller and an earthmover. The Truckcan back up in a straight line by using the sensors to determine if thetrailer is off centre.

BTW, he got some fun feedback from The Probe robot that he posted earlier,including mail from someone who works for Digital Instruments.Apparently they hold the patent on the technique that his robot uses, theyjust do it o

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