Which language to use ?

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David Marks's Avatar (by Gravatar)David Marks posted on
June 26, 2006, 6:23 pm
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Having acquired a lego rcx brick and fired it up with the firmware (with
some very welcome help from Bob Fay) I now need to know what software to use
and to say that I am confused would be an understatement. First of all I
don't have lego's own version and they seem to be almost totally unhelpful
in providing any useful support. NQC seems a little complex as I am trying
to interest my grandchildren to make use of lego technic. Gordons brick
programmer site appears to be dead (or resting !) I read an excellent report
of robolab but nowhere (including their own site) tells me how to buy it
orhow much it costs. They have a robolab video which is almost totally
pointless and appears to be an attempt at art rather than conveying useful
information. Readers will detect from my tone that I am very frustrated and
close to chucking the brick out of the window and going back to meccano ! I
would be grateful for any (polite !) suggestions.
Cheers




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brdavis's Avatar (by Gravatar)brdavis posted on
July 7, 2006, 5:34 pm
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Re: Which language to use ?



   If you're going to be teaching kids, it might be handy to have one
of LEGOs two offerings availble, RIS code (that came with the
commercial Mindstorms sets; I'm not sure if you can order it from LEGO
S@H, but you should certainly be able to grab the CD from eBay pretty
cheap, if you can't find someone here or on LUGNET to just mail you
one. I'd send you one, but I'm not sure where any of mine are at the
moment) or Robolab (sold through LEGO Education, formerly LEGO Dacta or
Pitsco-Dacta here in the States; take a look at):

http://www.legoeducation.com/store/detail.aspx?KeyWords=robolab&by  &ID71

Robolab will run on a Mac or PC, RIS code is PC only, but both are
fairly kid friendly (RIS code more so, but much weaker than Robolab).


   How old are the kids? It's not too bad, at least not if you (the
adult) play around with it a little. For the Mac, MacNQC:

http://homepage.mac.com/rbate/MacNQC/BetaTest.html

(I'm using an older 3.something version) is a great self-contained
environment providing just about everything you need.


   Then I hope this reaches you in time. It's still a very worthy
little robot brain, that you (oh, and of course the kids) can have a
lot of fun with. The folks on LUGNET (news.lugnet.com) can probably
provide some support as well.

--
Brian Davis



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