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Posted by Marc-A on January 29, 2009, 10:11 am
> Hi all,
> A few months ago I was happy as kid on Christmas! I finally bought a
> Lego Mindstorms NXT. I had big dreams of building a robot that could
> fetch me a beer from the fridge. After messing around with the Lego
> software for a couple minutes, I reached the conclusion that it was
> unusable for any serious programming.
> So I started looking around for ways to program the NXT in Python, C+
> +, and Java (in that order).
> I tried getting NXTPython to run on both windows xp sp2 and ubuntu,
> found and installed (?) setuptools, but couldn't get pyUSB or pyBluez
> to work.
> nxtOSEK seemed like the next promising thing, but after installing
> cygwin make is having problems finding files that are there.
> Tonights project was LeJOS, java for lego mindstorms. But
> unfortunately, the Lego USB driver doesn't support the 64 bit version
> of windows.
> Next up is repeating everything on windows virtual pc (tip: the
> download is hidden away in a tiny in the middle of the page referring
> you to the ms download center, it is NOT the big green button that
> says "Download"), but if somebody has experience with this and could
> help me out, I'd appreciate it and invite you over for a beer should
> you ever make it to Seattle.
> Thanks,
> Joshua
Hi Joshua, i have successfully managed to install LeJOS on Ubuntu
8.04 following the information found in the LEGO MAXIMUM NXT BOOK from
Brian Bagnall from Variant Press, they have a new edition out there
with revised instruction for all 3 platforms MAC LINUX WIN , Finally
you may also be interested in NXC (Not eXacly C) there is also a boot
out there again from Variant Press. Here is a list of all NXT related
books from all publishers http://www.booksnbots.com/
Hope that helps
Enjoy the beer
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> A few months ago I was happy as kid on Christmas! I finally bought a
> Lego Mindstorms NXT. I had big dreams of building a robot that could
> fetch me a beer from the fridge. After messing around with the Lego
> software for a couple minutes, I reached the conclusion that it was
> unusable for any serious programming.
> So I started looking around for ways to program the NXT in Python, C+
> +, and Java (in that order).
> I tried getting NXTPython to run on both windows xp sp2 and ubuntu,
> found and installed (?) setuptools, but couldn't get pyUSB or pyBluez
> to work.
> nxtOSEK seemed like the next promising thing, but after installing
> cygwin make is having problems finding files that are there.
> Tonights project was LeJOS, java for lego mindstorms. But
> unfortunately, the Lego USB driver doesn't support the 64 bit version
> of windows.
> Next up is repeating everything on windows virtual pc (tip: the
> download is hidden away in a tiny in the middle of the page referring
> you to the ms download center, it is NOT the big green button that
> says "Download"), but if somebody has experience with this and could
> help me out, I'd appreciate it and invite you over for a beer should
> you ever make it to Seattle.
> Thanks,
> Joshua