External Resources for LEGO Mindstorms

[Ken Schnautz]

I was digging through some old LEGO Mindstorms Forums tonight compiled a list of websites that you may find useful:

• www.mindstorms.com <= the official LEGO page
• www.legoeducation.com <= where educators can purchase kits
• http://thenxtstep.blogspot.com
• http://mynxt.matthiaspaulscholz.eu/
• http://www.jstuber.net/ <= Schematics for NXT circuit boards
  
• http://www.hitechnic.com/ <= Known for their 3rd party Gyro and Accelerometer sensors, but has many other resources as well
• http://www.philohome.com/ <= some notable hardware hacks as well as many other resources
• http://www.nxtclub.com/ <= be prepared to get lost in the land of YouTube watching some amazing LEGO Mindstorms creations
  
• http://www.mindsensors.com/ <= a webstore with custom sensors
• http://www.vernier.com/nxt/ <Vernier-branded LEGO Mindstorms sensors
• http://mindstormsnxt.blogspot.com/ <= a few LEGO Mindstorms designs
• http://robotchallenge.blogspot.com/ <= a blog with mostly NXT tips and tricks
• http://bricxcc.sourceforge.net <= Software that lets program your LEGOs with text-based code. Very powerful stuff. I highly recommend NXC!
  
• http://robotsquare.com/ <= lots of RCX, NXT and EV3 resources
  
• http://botbench.com/ <= lots of RCX, NXT and EV3 resources along with Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and VEX. Also, a tuturial for software called Virtual Brick... (see next line)
  
• http://www.robotvirtualworlds.com/virtualbrick/ <= makers of Virtual Brick, a commercial (i.e, costs money) software for simulating/virtualizing NXT/EV3 Robots

If you have some of your own, please add them to this thread!

Ken