Links

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University use of brickOS (formerly legOS)

brickOS is used in some way in each of the following efforts/courses.

Oh Well, the following course links have aged... However, the university links are still valid. As we are notified of courses using brickOS we will update this list.

• CS148: Building Intelligent Robots, Computer Science Department, Brown University

• Dat4 Project Site -  design and implementation of a prioritized interrupt system for legOS 0.2.3, Dept. of Computer Science, Aalborg University

• LegOS Research a paper by Ryan Simmons,CIS 690, Kansas State University

• Embedded Software Engineering Course, CCN 25754, Spring 2002, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley

Books, Articles, etc.

These are in no particular order.

• EXTREME MINDSTORMS™ 
  An Advanced Guide to LEGO® MINDSTORMS™
  by Dave Baum, Michael Gasperi, Ralph Hempel, Luis Villa
  APress, ISBN 1-893115-84-4,[search ISBN via Google]
   

• Building Robots with LEGO® MINDSTORMS™
  The ULTIMATE Tool for Mindstorms Maniacs!,
  by Mario Ferrari, Giulio Ferrari, Ralph Hempel technical editor
  Syngress Publishing, Inc., ISBN 1-928994-67-9, [search ISBN via Google]
   

• Joe Nagata's LEGO® MINDSTORMS™ Idea Book
  by Joe Nagata
  No Starch Press, Inc., ISBN 1-886411-40-9, [search ISBN via Google]
   

• The Unofficial Guide to LEGO® MINDSTORMS™ Robots
  by Jonathan B. Knudsen
  O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., ISBN 1-56592-692-7, [search ISBN via Google]
   

• Dave Baum's DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO LEGO® MINDSTORMS™
  by Dave Baum (The creator of NQC),
  APress, ISBN 1-893115-09-7, [search ISBN via Google]
   

• Jin Sato's LEGO® MINDSTORMS™
  The Master's Technique
  by Jin Sato, translated by Arnie Rusoff
  No Starch Press, Inc., ISBN 1-886411-56-5, [search ISBN via Google]
   

• Creative Projects with LEGO® Mindstorms™
  by Benjamin Erwin, foreword by Seymour Papert
  Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-70895-7,[search ISBN via Google]
   

Additional Software which can be used with brickOS

• EmulegOS - C++ code you can compile and link together with your legOS code. The resulting application emulates the behavior of your code as it were running on the actual RCX.

• Bricx Command Center - (BricxCC) is a Windows (95, 98, ME, NT, W2K, XP) program commonly known as an integrated development environment (IDE) for programming the RCX (all versions), Scout, Cybermaster, and Spybot programmable bricks using Dave Baum's Not Quite C (NQC) language. It also supports programming the Scout, RCX2, and Spybot using The LEGO Company's MindScript(tm) and LASM(tm) languages via the Mindstorms 2.5 SDK. It supports programming RCX bricks in C, C++, Pascal, Forth, and Java using the brickOS, pbForth, and leJOS alternate firmwares.

Other Software/Programming Languages for LEGO Mindstorms

• The best reference seems to be ...

Purchasing parts

• LEGO Shop at Home - kits, misc. parts, occasional specials.

• Pitsco LEGO Dacta - great source of prepackaged kits for classroom, instructional materials and spare parts.

• www.mindsensors.com - sensor multiplexers, remote servo motor controllers, and more...

• www.techno-stuff.com - sound sensors, IR reflective distance indicators, switch multiplexer, angle sensor, and more...

• www.hitechnic.com ultrasonic range sensor, infrared proximity sensor, short reach infrared sensor, four channel remote control receiver, magnetic compass sensor, and more...

General Robotics/LEGO Robotics Links

• Lego-Robotics Wiki or, more specifically, the Other Programming Systems Page

• MegaGiant Robotics Laboratory

• Good places list at LoTek site by Tobbe Arnesson

Amazing LEGO Robotics Creations

• JP Brown's Serious LEGO

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