BEST Summer 07

Course plan (old)

Schedule 2007

Contest Rules 2007

The Contest Map 2007

Software FAQ

Readings

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Robots 2007

Jacek

AI@CS

LTH                     Faculty of Science

EDUCATION:   LTH   Faculty of Science   Postgraduate Studies                         RESEARCH

BEST Summer course 2007

Robot Design (RCX-related links)

Mindstorms and RCX

• LEGO MINDSTORMS Internals (with THOUSANDS of links to useful stuff)
• RCX internals

LegOS

• LegOS at Sourceforge (up to 0.2.6)
• Documentation
• BrickOS (0.9 by now, incomplete material)
• BrickOS at Sourceforge
• Discussion group at lugnet, very useful info, specially about MacOS X-related issues neglected elsewhere
• LegOS HOWTO, most recent(?) version 0.2.4, October22nd, 2000
• Lego Mindstorm with Linux Mini-HOWTO, Rev 1.1, October 29th, 2000

LejOS

• LeJOS Home at Sourceforge

NQC

• BricxCC at Sourceforge
• NQC page there
• Documentation
• Original (old) NQC place (still lot of info)
• Mac OS X port for NQC version 2.4.r3
• Lego Robot Pages in Utrecht
• Mark Overmars' NQC tutorial (Version 3.03, Oct 2, 1999, PDF)
• Jonathan Knudsen's NQC tutorial
• NQC intro in French
• Fresh MacNQC
• Installing NQC on a Mac (but NOT applicable IN OUR LAB! Please check the software FAQ instead.)
• NQC API (thanks to Stefan Löffler for pointing it)

Local copies of the software

• brickos-0.2.6.10.6.tar.gz
• H8300CrossCompiler.dmg.gz
• libusb-0.1.8.tar.gz
• OSXutil.sit
• libusb-0.1.4.4.0.dylib

Other Stuff

• Fred Martin: Robotic Explorations: A Hands-on Introduction to Engineering, from Prentice-Hall
• Jonathan Knudsen: The Unofficial Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS Robots, from O'Reilly
• UNSW course material (COMP1711, 2002)
• Brown University course material (CS148)
• Fred Martin's home
• The Handy Board
• AIBO stuff
• URBI at Sourceforge
• Lisp on Lego Mindstorms (on top of BrickOS)
• The Player/Stage Project, Open Source development tools for robot and sensor applications