LEGO Mindstorms

Hints, tips, and tricks for the LEGO Mindstorms products (RCX, NXT, EV3, Robot Inventor).

Details

See the subdirectories for details on each of the generations.

• RCX
• NXT
• EV3
• MS4 ("Mindstorms gen 4", but the world seems to settle on RI5 "Robot Inventor gen 5")

Background

LEGO Mindstorms is a line of hardware, software and bricks, which is produced by LEGO for building robots.

There have been four generations of the Mindstorms wiki:

• RCX
  1998: v1.0 9719
  1999: v1.5 9747
  2001: v2.0 3804
  16 MHz, 32 kB of ROM, 32 kB RAM, IR link (UART, later USB), segmented LCD

• NXT wiki
  2006: v1.0 8527
  2009: v2.0 8547
  48 MHz, 256 kB flash, 64 kB of RAM, 100×60 pixel monochrome LCD, Bluetooth, speaker

• EV3 wiki
  2013: v1.0 31313
  300 MHz, 16MB flash, 64MB RAM, 178×128 pixel LCD, Bluetooth, USB mini, USB host (WiFi), micro SD, speaker, Linux

• Robot Inventor
  2020: v1.0 51515
  100MHz ARM M4, 1MBflash, 32 MB RAM, 5x5 LED, Bluetooth, USB micro, beeper, MicroPython

Miscellaneous

Some miscellaneous content, not specific for one Mindstorms generation.

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