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The Lego Mindstorms product line was the first project of "Home Education", a division of Lego Education established by employee Tormod Askildsen in 1995. Askildsen, who had previously spent ten years working for Lego Education, had grown frustrated working with teaching professionals and wanted to create an improved educational experience that was delivered directly towards children.
PyNXC [28] is a project which converts Python code to Not Exactly C (NXC) [29] to download to Lego Mindstorms robots. NXT-Python NXT-Python [30] is a Python module which communicates with the NXT via USB or Bluetooth. It supports commands and several aftermarket sensors. LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Software
BrickOS is an open-source operating system created by Markus Noga as firmware to operate as an alternative software environment for the Lego Mindstorms Robotic Invention System. [1] BrickOS is the first open-source software made for Lego Mindstorms robots. It allows development using the C, C++, and Java programming languages.
Lego Education (formerly known as Lego Dacta and stylized as LEGO education) is a Lego theme designed specifically for schools that concentrates sets that can be used by education institutions and includes sets that can focus on Duplo and Technic themes and contain larger amounts of blocks. [2] The theme was first introduced in 1999. [3]
The biggest change from the LEGO Mindstorms NXT and NXT 2.0 to the EV3 is the technological advances in the programmable brick. The main processor of the NXT was an ARM7 microcontroller, whereas the EV3 has a more powerful ARM9 CPU running Linux.
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leJOS is a firmware replacement for Lego Mindstorms programmable bricks. Different variants of the software support the original Robotics Invention System, the NXT, and the EV3. It includes a Java virtual machine, which allows Lego Mindstorms robots to be programmed in the Java programming language. It also includes 'iCommand.jar' which allows ...
Unlike other programming languages for the Lego Mindstorms series like ROBOTC, custom firmware is not needed.However, it is needed when the Lego Mindstorms NXT Intelligent Brick must connect with Bricx Command Center via Bluetooth or when increasing robot performance [1] and functionality (various NBC/NXC Enhanced Firmware exclusive syscalls).