Philipp 56 Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 Hey, I have an idea for an booster which can connect to two lego motors and two or maybe more lego sensors. Details on this are still in the very early design stage. I'm not talking about the newer lego Mindstorms NXT motors with integrated encoders and i2c, i'm talking about the 'old' stuff from the first lego mindstorms or lego train generation: Before beginning to work on this I just want to ask you guys, if you or your kids still do have some of this older Lego Technics stuff and if you're somehow interested in making these lovely motors work with Stellaris and msp430 launchpads. Possible applications are basically endless, everyone who had the joy to play with Lego Technic some time ago knows what i'm talking about. So, what do you think? ;-) Tribes and abecedarian 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
abecedarian 330 Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 I remember those! We had the bulldozer and car (with selectable transmission, moving pistons, et cetera). Those would be too cool being remote controlled. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DanAndDusty 62 Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 That would be cool. I have a ton of stuff from the 1st mindstorms. Top of my head there must be 3 or 4 add on kits plus main kit. Not touched it for years but I seem to remember that getting the ir tower (old serial one not the USB) working was tons of hassle. So for me^h^h my son a mindstorms booster would be awesome. Sent from my GT-I8160 using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cde 334 Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 Someone did a bunch of msp430/nxt stuff that I found a while back: http://www.tau.ac.il/~stoledo/lego/msp430-ir-remote/'>http://www.tau.ac.il/~stoledo/lego/msp430-ir-remote/ http://www.tau.ac.il/~stoledo/lego/ Also has avr and pic based stuff. Philipp and bluehash 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Philipp 56 Posted November 16, 2012 Author Share Posted November 16, 2012 thanks cde, interesting stuff. but I'm more interested in the older RCX compatible motors and sensors which don't utilize i2c and are totally analog ;-) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tribes 10 Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 That sounds totally awesome! I loved playing with Lego Mindstorms and still have a lot of stuff left! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mihec 1 Posted November 19, 2012 Share Posted November 19, 2012 I'm interested of this! I was thinking about same sort of things coupe weeks ago. It will be great to include new MSP staff inside oldschool Lego creations. Or to new design also! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Philipp 56 Posted November 19, 2012 Author Share Posted November 19, 2012 Well, thats enough motivation to get started with this. As soon as I have some sparetime I'll mock up a PCB design with connections for the Lego cables, later on i have to decide which driver i want to use. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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