Lego Mindstorms support: know any Java programmers with some spare time?

Rick Zaccone zaccone at bucknell.edu
Sat Mar 26 19:57:10 UTC 2005


>I have just discovered a cross-platform Java library that supports
>all the Lego Mindstorms RCX versions (including the USB towers!)
>under multiple OS platforms.
>
>http://www.escape.com/~dario/java/rcx/
>
>I think that using this library to make an server program that Squeak
>could communicate with would be the easiest way to make
>cross-platform support for Mindstorms RCX units.
>
>Know any Java programmers who could make a program using this?
>
>My idea is to find someone to do this:
>
>Make a command-line Java application that will act as a server for
>RCX control and communications, letting one (or more) clients connect
>via TCP sockets.
>
>Then one or more Squeak images could connect to this "RCX server"
>over the net and talk to the Lego Mindstorms RCX brick(s) attached to
>that server machine.
>
>This would be much easier than re-implementing all that stuff in
>Squeak.
>
>--
>Ned Konz
>http://bike-nomad.com/squeak/

One of my students wrote quite a bit of Lego Mindstorm code for Squeak
a couple of years ago.

He hasn't touched it in about a year and a half, but it may be
useful.

http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~lego/

Rick



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