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Lego to Open Mindstorms NXT Firmware

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the arise-from-your-grave-oh-plastic-brick dept.

ajdlinux writes "LEGO has officially announced that the firmware for the Mindstorms NXT will be open source. They will be releasing several developer kits and the firmware source during August, the kits containing the NXT driver specs, the schematics for the hardware connection and the Bluetooth protocol used by the NXT. The NXT will be only US$250, which is only slightly more expensive than the Mindstorms RIS2 kit. I certainly can't wait. " We had covered the earlier announcement of this kit.

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  1. lets see the benchmarks by psbrogna · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ok, who'll be the first to construct a Lego Beowulf? And I'm sure NTX overclockers have already started!

  2. Perfect! by suv4x4 · · Score: 3, Funny

    All these years wondering where those robot armies to enslave the human race will come from, and now we know they started as a bunch of LEGO models.

  3. Re:Kids today I tell ya... by Pad-Lok · · Score: 2, Funny

    Interesting. All my daughters think Lego Mindstorms are pretty to eat.

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  4. Re:What license? by Schraegstrichpunkt · · Score: 2, Funny
    Here's the accurate version:

    BSD License: RTFL

    GNU GPL: RTFL

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  5. Re:A strategy to win the geek audience? by szrachen · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm sorry but sex slave LEGO-bots do not sound pleasurable to me... Think of all of the edges and pieces that could easily crunch together and catch something. Ouch! Maybe if they were Duplos!