BrickBot: The LEGO MindStorms RCX Hub
This BrickBot organization contains information and projects related to the original LEGO® MindStorms set—the LEGO® MindStorms RCX!
A hacker community grew around the RCX—individuals intrigued by the capabilities and determined to push the limits of what was possible. Of a time before GitHub came to prominence as site for sharing open source projects, many of these RCX projects were scattered on various personal and univeristy websites across the Internet.
A number of these projects have otherwise disappeared from the Internet, while others languished in deprecated version control systems or could only be found by looking up the website on an Internet archive. A few were projects that had been downloaded and saved before the original web pages disappeared, but whereever and whenever possible, links to either the original website (if still active) or an Internet archive version (if available) have been included.
Despite these efforts, several projects are known to have slipped through the cracks. If anyone might still have a copy of the source code for these, the contribution of that would be most welcome.
- Pocket Programmer ↗
- Phantom: An alterative to Spirit.ocx ↗
- A pre-build version of Phantom (v1.0 RC 2) is bundled with PRO-BOT under the “Binaries” folder
- MindStorms Tools, ↗
- RCXSimulator ↗
- Ada/MindStorms Installer ↗
Projects imported to this GitHub organization have been curated to varying degrees as part of the import process. Please feel free to join and contribute in whatever way you can, whether that might be cleaning up or updating documenation, converting text files to Markdown, setting up wikis, or updating code to work with the latest host platforms.
The initial ninety-plus (90+) projects gathered under this BrickBot organization on GitHub (org info) were largely collected by Matthew Sheets.
Links to archives of official LEGO® software and other files and releases related to the LEGO MindStorms RCX are available in the Archive.
This GitHub organization is not affiliated with the LEGO® Group. Please click here for the official LEGO® website.
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- GNU-Legacy-Toolchain Public
A legacy GNU toolchain that includes GCC 3.4.6, BinUtils 2.16.1, GPC 2.1-20070904, NewLib 1.19.0, and GDB 5.3/6.8. While primarily intended for building a cross-toolchain targeting Hitachi/Renesas H8/300 processors with the COFF (or, colloquially, HMS) format, this should work for other targets as well.
- BrickBot.github.io Public
A collection of software, firmware, tools, and utilities for the LEGO® MindStorms RCX
- Teaching-RobotC Public
A teaching guide for ROBOTC, a cross-robotics-platform programming language for popular educational robotics systems such as the LEGO MindStorms RCX.
- RobotC Public
A powerful C-based programming language with a Windows environment for writing and debugging programs, and the only programming language at this level that offers a comprehensive, real-time debugger.
- Virtual-Remote Public
A Virtual Remote for the LEGO MindStorms RCX by Dr. Vegetable that runs on Windows and uses your existing serial or USB IR tower.
- BricxCC Public
Bricx Command Center IDE for LEGO® MindStorms robots, including the RCX, NXT, and EV3. Forked from https://bricxcc.sourceforge.net/.
- brickOS-bibo Public
An alternative RCX operating system and firmware cloning brickOS. The kernel was written from scratch for better performance, but to the average brickOS programmer, changes should be transparent. There is a lot of code borrowed from brickOS, and numerous patches originally targeted for brickOS have been conceptually incorporated. While this proj…
- h8300-hitachi-coff-toolchain.cygport Public
Cygwin packaging for a build of the GNU Legacy Toolchain targeting h8300-hitachi-coff
- Archive Public archive
An archive of software releases pertaining to the LEGO® MindStorms RCX. This is typically kept in read-only (archive) mode to guard against accidental changes, modifications, deletions, etc.
- brickEmu Public
An emulator for LEGO MindStorms RCX bricks. It emulates processor and peripherals, so it runs the original ROM code, firmware, and programs.
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