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Posted by on July 7, 2006, 5:34 pm
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David Marks wrote:
> Having acquired a lego rcx brick and fired it up with the firmware (with
> some very welcome help from Bob Fay) I now need to know what
> software to use...
If you're going to be teaching kids, it might be handy to have one
of LEGOs two offerings availble, RIS code (that came with the
commercial Mindstorms sets; I'm not sure if you can order it from LEGO
S@H, but you should certainly be able to grab the CD from eBay pretty
cheap, if you can't find someone here or on LUGNET to just mail you
one. I'd send you one, but I'm not sure where any of mine are at the
moment) or Robolab (sold through LEGO Education, formerly LEGO Dacta or
Pitsco-Dacta here in the States; take a look at):
http://www.legoeducation.com/store/detail.aspx?KeyWords=robolab&by=20&ID=371
Robolab will run on a Mac or PC, RIS code is PC only, but both are
fairly kid friendly (RIS code more so, but much weaker than Robolab).
> NQC seems a little complex...
How old are the kids? It's not too bad, at least not if you (the
adult) play around with it a little. For the Mac, MacNQC:
http://homepage.mac.com/rbate/MacNQC/BetaTest.html
(I'm using an older 3.something version) is a great self-contained
environment providing just about everything you need.
> Readers will detect from my tone that I am very frustrated and
> close to chucking the brick out of the window
Then I hope this reaches you in time. It's still a very worthy
little robot brain, that you (oh, and of course the kids) can have a
lot of fun with. The folks on LUGNET (news.lugnet.com) can probably
provide some support as well.
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Brian Davis
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> some very welcome help from Bob Fay) I now need to know what
> software to use...