http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/ Engadget Comments for LEGO Mindstorms NXT kit available for pre-order April 1st http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/Jan 25th 2008 6:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/Jan 29th 2008 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/Mar 26th 2006 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/Mar 26th 2006 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/Mar 26th 2006 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/
I just hope you don't have to stick to the drag'n'drop interface ...]]>Mar 26th 2006 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/last semester, for my freshman engineering class, we used RCX 2.0 and the NQC programming environment, which was ridiculously buggy. It would crash at the slightest provocation, often taking your code with it. We also had to use hacks to get around the 3 sensor limit. Although I love the idea of the lego + robot idea, I think the best solution would be an officially supported, usable programming interface, and some way to get more sensors on there.
then, it'll rock!]]>Mar 26th 2006 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/Mar 26th 2006 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/Mar 26th 2006 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/
... yes but i would not be suprised if he did !]]>Mar 26th 2006 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/
Just about every college and university over here in the UK uses the previous Mindstorms bricks to some degree. In fact, I would go so far as to say they're used massively.

As has been mentioned previously, the initial user interface is rather simplistic, but once you delve into using NQC you can do some really amazing stuff with them.

These will sell amazingly well. ]]>Mar 26th 2006 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/]]>Mar 26th 2006 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,69946-0.html

In short, the software and hardware were designed and built (without being paid $) by four brilliant NXT community developers. It will be quite the robotic building kit.]]>Mar 26th 2006 4:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/Mar 26th 2006 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/Mar 26th 2006 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/you can program it to do just about anything in C++ or MatLab for example and control the robot from there.

i hope they keep that going with this version, however it might take some time after the release.

looking forward to it!!!]]>Mar 26th 2006 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/Mar 26th 2006 6:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/
I thought that was obvious, but if you have never used LEGOs, I guess it isn't. ]]>Mar 26th 2006 9:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/
take a look at BrickOS (used to be LegOS, but they had to change their name)

it is an OS written in C tha lets you program the RCX in C/C++. It is a pretty nice OS considering what you are dealing with and is a great to study and modify (it is open source).

There is also a similar OS written in Java called leJOS...]]>Mar 27th 2006 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/Jul 16th 2006 8:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/26/lego-mindstorms-nxt-kit-available-for-pre-order-april-1st/Aug 21st 2006 3:33AM