- #LEGO NXT MATLAB 64 BIT USB SOFTWARE#
- #LEGO NXT MATLAB 64 BIT USB PC#
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#LEGO NXT MATLAB 64 BIT USB DOWNLOAD#
You can buy replacement disks on Ebay, but you can also find a few torrents still floating around where you can download the Lego Robot Invention System (RIS) 2.0.
#LEGO NXT MATLAB 64 BIT USB SOFTWARE#
Unfortunately, you can't find this software on the Lego website anymore. My set didn't come with the original installation disk, but I wanted to try programming the RCX brick with the LEGO OEM software before branching out.
#LEGO NXT MATLAB 64 BIT USB PC#
There are a few tiny pieces that hold the PC board to the upper case that will break if you are not careful.
Work slowly because it can get bound up and you could easily crack or break something. Once that is released, you can gently pry and work the plastic shell apart. To push the contacts out you have to press the little release clip on the contact that prevents it from slipping back through the hole in the plastic. The safest way to do this is to remove all the screws and press the first and last battery contacts out of the battery compartment. This is a good site that details the internals of the RCX brick. The RCX is basically an LCD display, a microcontroller chip, a couple H-bridges, a speaker, an IR LED and receiver and some button and Lego wire connector contact. It's handy to know what parts go into something. It's not actually necessary to disassemble the RCX unless you have to repair something, but I like to take things apart and I was already thinking of a future project, so I decided to take the brick apart. This allows you to remotely control movements and begin any of the 5 saved programs. Included in the auction was one of the RCX IR remotes that came from a different set. This allows you to power the RCX brick and your whole project with an external power supply instead of batteries. These pictures are from another RCX brick that I bought separately because it was an RCX 1.0 with the external barrel jack connector. There are still a handful of good sites out there and they may not be maintained, but you can use the Wayback Machine to read the pages they used to link to. There are still a few sites around that support the original Mindstorms RCX sets, but they are disappearing and the information on them is less valuable as we move away from the versions of Windows that were supported. People found ways to make them work under heavily patched copies of Windows XP, but since Microsoft no longer supports XP and the patches from Lego aren't available anymore, I had to find an alternative to the Lego software. According to what I have read and some experience, the sets only really work well under Windows 98. The main problem with Mindstorms RCX is the lack of support from Lego for these old sets. Because these sets are nearly 20 years old, there are usually some problems, so once I got my set working I thought I would document the process for others to follow. Now that they are somewhat antiquated, you can usually pick them up pretty cheaply. I have wanted one of these for a while, but I never got around to buying one. I found one of the original Lego Mindstorms kits at a garage sale and I had to buy it.
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