Lego resources

This page collects links to various resources related to LEGO Mindstorms. Collected by Tobias Amnell, report new discoveries or failed links to him.

Another list of links A collection of Lego Mindstorm bookmarks.

General LEGO information

LEGO - the company
LUGNET - Lego user group
Ldraw - LEGO cad
MLCad - Mike's lego cad

(Almost) not related

LEGO Mindstorms information

Lego Mindstorms - official site
Various information and links
RCX Internals - by K. Proudfoot.
To Mindstorms and Beyond background and history

Software platforms

There are many software platforms (operating systems) for Lego Mindstorms. At least two seem to have nice structure and support; brickOS (formerly known as legOS) and LeJOS. Se also Lego Mindstorm with Linux Mini-HOWTO

General

BricxCC an integrated development environment for NQC, also support brickOS
brickRC a simple Gnome application to remotely control a LEGO Mindstorms RCX brick that runs brickOS

brickOS information

Note: brickOS was formerly known as legOS. Complaints from LEGO forced the name change.

brickOS homepage - Source code, binaries, documentation, etc.
LegOS discussion group - Discussion groups, etc.
legOS kernel (ps)
legOS HOWTO
LNP - LegOS network protocol
WinLNP
JavaLNP (zip) - Java implementation of LNP protocol (see also next link).
LegOS lab - Lab with lot of information and links.
Running LegOS at home - instructions for assignment above.
TCP/IP for LegOS - a RCX port of Adam Dunkels uIP
uLunar - ad-hoc IP networking (cool)
Another LegOS homepage. (Documentation, newsgroups, etc.)

LeJOS information

I do not have first hand experience of LeJOS. But homepages etc indicate that it is well worth looking into.

LeJOS homepage (web)

Other platforms

There are also several other programming languages/operating systems that can generate code for Lego Mindstorm. Here is a partial list.

Not Quite C - uses RCX internal bytecode.
Quite C - C libraries to access firmware.
pbFORTH - a FORTH dialect
Esterel, Lustre or Grafcet - some synchronous languages.
TinyVM - another Java Virtual machine.
Ada/Mindstorms - Compile Ada programs to NQC, for Windows.
Colibri - a RTOS that will run on RCX (in progress)
Chart - Programming Lego Mindstorm using Asynchronous State Machine (ASM)