What I considered worth reading during the week and did not want to link separately, collected here and uncommented.
lego
OCaml-mindstorm - control the NXT robot brick from OCaml. Nice!
The Transterpreter - haven't had a Lego link in a while. Transterpreter provides an Occam environment that can run on a Lego RCX brick.
LEGO Universe: 'LEGO Star Wars Multiplied By A Million' - wow. A Lego-MMO!
Project details for leJOS - now also for the NXT. It's exciting, on the other hand, Lego tinkering has a disadvantage: you have to put it away if you don't want to constantly trip over it ...
Transterpreter - compact runtime for a massively parallel runtime that runs on all kinds of systems. Even Lego Mindstorms. For OSX and Windows there is an IDE. Unfortunately, the OS X version cannot also load programs onto the Brick. The whole thing is programmed in Occam-Pi
Got the hang of Lego hats
The Lego »Mindstorms NXT« firmware is becoming open source - and this is the only way it could happen. Lego earns money from selling the construction kits and the software is enhanced by fans. This was already the case with the RCX - only the developers had to disassemble a lot of bytes to figure out how the thing works. With the NXT, things could get significantly better.
The memory equipment (256 MB Flash) and the CPU (Arm 7) also sound very good. This will be a pretty interesting device, the new robot building block.
News from Lego Mindstorms
Live From CES: Lego Mindstorms NXT - Gizmodo - wow. I actually wanted to hold back on Lego purchases, especially since I don't have time for them anyway, but this sounds really too good:
The new NXT “brick” is a 32-bit microprocessor that can be programmed using a PC or, for the first time, a Mac. It’s Bluetooth enabled, which makes the instructions you plug into the LabView software easy to transfer to your bot, and even control it from a PDA or mobile phone. It’s got three servo motors with inbuilt rotation sensors for precise speed control (one of the demo units on display walked quite fluidly). An ultrasonic sensor lets the robot see, it will recognize sound patterns and tones, the light detector is sensitive to both color and intensity variations, and there is a touch sensor to let the bot feel its way around as well.
This definitely sounds like a must-have factor in the range of 100%
GNU Development Tools for the Renesas H8/300[HS] Series - Dokumentation wie man einen Cross-Compiler fĂĽr den RCX aufbaut
Lego-Mindstorms Simulator - Simulation von LeJOS programmierten RCXen in Java
brickOS at SourceForge - Alternatives Betriebssystem fĂĽr den Lego RCX Baustein
Peeron: Robotics Invention System 2.0 (#3804-1) - Teile Inhaltsliste von Lego Kästen, hier Mindstorms 2.0
MacNQC - Lego Compiler fĂĽr OS X und Classic OS