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Minibrix were construction kits manufactured from 1935 to 1976 in the UK.Developed in 1935, they enabled children to build their own miniature houses. Like the later and more famous construction toy, Lego, Minibrix consisted primarily of interlocking bricks with moulded studs on the surface, but being invented before the availability of modern plastics they were made of hard rubber which had ...
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 brick (real) dimensions Measuring LDraw parts size in LeoCAD with "ruler" part (ruler tick: 1 mm) LDU ( LD raw U nits) — is a base distance unit used in the LDraw format, equals to 1/20 of pin step (distance between centers of 2 closest pins on plate), which in turn almost equals to 0.4 millimetre .
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.
The Genuine Fractals products were acquired by LizardTech in June 2001, before ultimately being acquired by onOne Software in July 2005. As of version 7.0, the product was called Perfect Resize , and as of version 10, ON1 Resize .
Lego Digital Designer is a discontinued CAD software made by Qube Software and the Lego Group. It allows people to design a virtual model using a selection of virtual Lego bricks. These models could be saved locally as uploaded to the Lego website for sharing and ordering as a physical product.
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 ...
LibNXT [26] is a utility library for talking to the Lego Mindstorms NXT intelligent brick at a relatively low level. It is targeted at platforms overlooked by official Lego Mindstorms NXT software (such as Linux), and works on any POSIX-compliant operating system where libusb 0.1 is supported. Windows support is also possible with libusb's ...