Lego Mindstorm NXT

[TheSiege]

Mindstorm has just release the NXT

i was thinking about buying it, but i was wondering just how hard it was to program this thing. or what code it uses?

 

[rgwalt]

In the past Lego used a stripped down form of C called NQC (for not quite C). The RCX (the brain) cannot process floating point numbers... I didn't know this and it caused ALL KINDS of problems when I had to TA a lab.

EDIT: Apparently the software is now being powered by LabView, which means the programming will be very intuitive and graphically based.

R

 

[swtethan]

noooo, i had mindstorms 1.5 and boy was it fun (for the first week) after that it was just... wtf do i do now?

 

[zinkpig]

Originally posted by: rgwalt
EDIT: Apparently the software is now being powered by LabView, which means the programming will be very intuitive and graphically based.
R

are yuo kidding LabView is any thing but intutive !

 

[StarGazerVSP]

I thought lego was suppose to be for all ages, even little kids. How do they expect little kids to do computer programming.

 

[cessna152]

There are many different programming languages for the Mindstorms. The Lego provided ones are pretty easy to use. When I screwed around with them I also used NQC. Coming from a C++ background it was easy to pickup.

There are probably .NET based languages, Java, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindstorms#Available_programming_languages

 

[TheSiege]

so there has to be forums dedicated to this, anyone know of any

 

[DanTMWTMP]

not too hard actually. thing is really fun hehe.

if you're gonna use NQC, go here:
http://bricxcc.sourceforge.net/nqc/

 

[Batti]

More info here