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Online Resources
- Lego Mindstorms: This is the official site of LEGO MINDSTORMS. It contains tips and related articles. It also provides the space for the personal Website to post pictures, program modules and other constructional documents.
- Robotics: It is the hub of LEGO Geeks and Fans. This portal holds lots of information and has several discussion groups. It also allow you to directly correspond online with several other people around the world. This URL will take to to the top level of the LEGO® robotics discussion groups, which is further subdivided into more specific interests. LUGNET is an outstanding, searchable resource.
- RCX Internals: This page presents the results of Kekoa Proudfoot’s reverse engineering efforts on the RCX. This site is amazingly fascinating, if you need to know all the technical details of LEGO RCX. Author has dedicated the site to provide the architectural description of the Hitachi Micro-Controller, peripheral devices (i.e. trans-receivers, motors etc), communication protocols and opcodes. To a Electrical/Hardware Engineer it provides the visibility to understand the execution of a program in terms of data bytes.
- Lego Mindstorms WebRing: A Web ring is a set of sites that are all linked to each other. You can traverse forward or backward through the entire ring if you wish, or visit sites in a random order. Browsing the MINDSTORMS™ Web ring is a good way to acquaint yourself with the MINDSTORMS™ online community.
- Ben’s Lego Creations: Ben Williamson is a very gifted mechanical designer. This visually clean web site details Ben’s creations, including a working plotter, a treaded robot with a grabber arm, an intelligent truck, and other pearls.
- Lego: This web site belongs to Marcus Fischer-Mellbin, a ten-year-old with a penchant for natural disasters. Along with other models, you’ll find photographs and descriptions of a MINDSTORMS™-based Tsunami and tornado.
- The MIT Programmable Brick:
The MIT Programmable Brick is the forerunner of the RCX. Looking through this site is like leafing through the RCX’s family photograph album.
Other Books for References:
- The Unofficial Guide to Lego Mindstorm Robots by Jonathan B. Knudsen
- Definitive Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS, Second Edition by Dave Baum (ISBN: 1590590635)
- Building Robots With Lego Mindstorms : The Ultimate Tool for Mindstorms Maniacs by Mario Ferrari (ISBN: 1928994679).
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