Program LEGO Mindstorms with leJOS and SCCharts

Overview

Mindstorms is a product family from Lego, with sensors, motors and a programmable brick. The newest iteration of the product family is the EV3 programmable brick. Its predecessors are NXT and RCX. In the following we will see how to develop applications for the NXT brick, thus Mindstorms will be used exchangeable with NXT brick.

Several open-source, third-party replacements for the offical Lego firmware have been developed. These support many well known programming languages, such as Java, C/C++, Python, Lua, etc. In the following we will use KIELER SCCharts to program Mindstorms running the Lego Java Operating System (leJOS).

Download and install leJOS

The Eclipse plugin for leJOS

Todo

Flash the leJOS firmware

Todo

Known issues

Flash firmware issue on Linux: sudo rmmod cdc_acm

Test the Mindstorm

Todo

Configure KIELER

Environment setup. Sample project creation. Project launch.

Using the Remote Console (RConsole)

nxjconsoleviewer