Lego Mindstorms is a line of Lego Group products combining programmable bricks with electric motors, sensors, Lego bricks, and Lego Technic pieces (such as gears, axles, beams, and pneumatic parts) to build robots and other automated or interactive systems.
Lego Mindstorms is marketed commercially as the Robotics Invention System (RIS). It is also sold and used as an educational tool, originally through a partnership between Lego and the MIT Media Laboratory [http://llk.media.mit.edu/projects.php?id=135. The educational version of the products is called Lego Mindstorms for Schools, and comes with the ROBOLAB GUI-based programming software.
Lego Mindstorms may be used to build a model of an embedded system with computer-controlled electromechanical parts. Almost all kinds of real-life embedded systems, from elevator controllers to industrial robots, may be modelled using Mindstorms.
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Lego Mindstorms Internals - For Lego supergeeks. A project to reverse-engineer the computer interface in order to make your own software.
Lego Mindstorms [Official] - This is the official Mindstorms site.
Advanced Lego Mindstorms Programming in Visual C++ - Provides example source code that shows how to remote-control the Mindstorms robot from within a Visual C++ program using video from the Vision Command camera.
Buachaille's Lego Mindstorms - Site of a young Lego Mindstorms inventor. Many robots listed here, along with some programs. Lots and lots of pictures.
Climbbot - Site includes video, images and a Java applet to show off this robot that can scale a horizontal rope.
ESG Lego Robotics Seminar - A basic robotics and mechanics class at MIT which centers on Lego.
Lego Mindstorms Sensor Input - How to make many new homebrew sensors for your RCX with links to other sensor projects.
Meta Description: [ This page describes the technical details of Lego Mindstorms RCX and NXT inputs, sensors and instructions for homebrew sensors. ]
legOS Home Page - This is the official home page for legOS, the alternative Lego Mindstorms OS.
Legotics - Offers information on Legots, robots built from Lego Mindstorms, as well as pictures and the latest news. Duals, races, and other competitions held in Denver, Colorado and Seattle, Washington.
Meta Description: [ The Legotics group's primary mission is to help facilitate Lego Mindstorms competitions in Seattle and Denver. The competitions invole 2 or more atonymous lego robots trying to solve the problem at hand while trying to thwart the oponants. Legotics also maintains a Legopedia where you will find d... ]
Marcus' Lego Creations - Young fan has successfully created Mindstorm robots, Tornado, the Professor, and the Dunkobat. The 'EMW', a complex robot, was created for a Danish competition.
MIT Programmable Brick Project - The research project from which Mindstorms grew. Lots of information here, in geek-digestible form.
MIT Programmable Lego Brick - More on MIT's programmable brick. Older and less information than the other MIT pages, but has some cute photographs and writing.
NASA: Lego Design and Programming System - Features software for the Lego engineer, and information for the Robolab.
Remote Control X for Lego Mindstorms - This program will allow you to control your Lego Mindstorms invention with a game controller using the infrared transmitter that comes with the Robotics Invention System set.
Meta Description: [ This program allows you to control your LEGO MINDSTORMS invention with a game controller using
the infrared transmitter that comes with the Robotics Invention System ]
Roligheds Lego Mindstorms - Detailed descriptions, pictures, NQC-programs and animations of inventions - among them a typewriter and slot machine.
Meta Description: [ LEGO Mindstorms robotics site with pictures, detailed descriptions, NQC-programming and animations of my award-winning inventions ]
TinyVM - A firmware replacement for the Lego RCX, with a small Java VM in it.
Meta Description: [ The world's largest development and download repository of Open Source code and applications ]
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