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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