Lego Mind Storms

Lego Robot-s

• http://mindstorms.lego.com/

• OReilly ran a column by Jonathan Knudsen back in 2000. He also provided a list of references, and wrote one of the books - ISBN:1-56592-692-7 .

• official software is only for MsWindows, but it smells like there are various hacks (e.g. for LinuxOS which includes a Python library) available, and you can work with various languages (MIT has its own Logo implementation, with a visual GUI that's for MacOS).

• books

• package for schools (sounds a little over-programmed vs exploratory) (there are other Lego-for-schools programs)

• good unofficial info

• good techie overview

• links http://www.botmag.com/issue3/lego_links.shtml

NXT generation

• launch August'2006

• Wired Mag article on the development

• blog by JeffJames covering Lego Mind Storms and other personal robotics kits, trends, etc.

  • entry on the NXT software, based on Lab View, running on MsWindows and MacOs X.

• Jul2006 - pre-orders are shipping

NXT v2 mid-2009

• Chris Anderson quotes basic tech unchanged, but the shooterbot kit is way cooler than anything in 1.0. Balls everywhere!

NXT EV3 released in stores on September 1, 2013 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms_EV3