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Have you already heared of LEGO Mindstorms? Doesn’t matter if you didn’t, because this applies to the most people. LEGO Mindstorms is a section of LEGO with the focus on robotic.

Here is a link to the newest one: Amazon: NXT 2.0

I’ve bought it a few days ago and it arrived yesterday. Yesterday there were some betatest with it (e.g. driving on the black line on the testpad). My focus is to program these robots. In Wikipedia is an article about Mindsotrms and how you can program them. LEGO delivers, beside the robot, a manual with a disc. On the disc is an easy drag-and-drop editor. The possibilities with the editor are quite few and I decided to program it with other programminglanguages.

I chose leJOS (Java for NXT).

And today I setup the GUI (Java-Editor) and bought a bluetooth dongle. I connected my NXT with my PC and the Java-Editor found the device. My first program was very very simple, but I felt great after I saw it working.