Portal:Lego Mindstorms

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Our first real demo of soft- and hardware on 2009-10-01
initial course layout on a 4'x8' board
First Lego Mindstorm PicoRover like 2009

The TFX Moonstorm group uses Lego hardware to build and test robotic concepts and operational paradigms for the mission.

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Our project has reaches its one year anniversary! Congratulations to everyone that has helped us get this far.

Purpose edit

To develop an educational forum where students can experience robotics and remote operations in a collaborative open source environment.

Check out the LEGO Moonbots competition. If you are student group, you should consider joining.

If you are interested in joining the Team FREDNET LEGO effort, drop me an e-mail at sean.casey AT teamfrednet DOT org. We are working on making an open source package to remotely operate LEGO style rovers (and other rovers). This should parlay into the system we eventually use with our mission.

Programmers and hardware developers wanted.

Better yet if you've got your own MINDSTORMS kit to demo the software architecture.

Check out

Overview edit

We're in the process of putting a new proto-typing experiment together to leverage interest in educational outreach. A wiki page is forming to describe the project - but it concerns creating 'mindstorms' models of our three rover concepts and flowing down to the community the operations software for remote control. We are working on the description of tasks for this so it will have a strong resemblance to what we'll need for the actual system. The intent is to start proto-typing the technologies to demonstrate open source hardware development and team interactions.
What I think we should do is something which demonstrates:

  1. A successful open source development model - teams working together do develop working designs that are distributed to the community
  2. A demonstration of remote operations - participants can use our rover software to control vehicles either locally or remotely
  3. Promotion of the team - we need more to establish our open source brand
  4. Leverage google efforts - we should stay ahead of Google opportunities

--Sean Casey

Open tasks edit

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Pages

This list show which pages are part of Portal:Lego Mindstorms:


Portal:Lego Mindstorms/3D imagingPortal:Lego Mindstorms/Guidelines
Portal:Lego Mindstorms/Lego Mindstorms course
Portal:Lego Mindstorms/ToDoPortal:Lego Mindstorms/commandPortal:Lego Mindstorms/course
Portal:Lego Mindstorms/devPortal:Lego Mindstorms/gamePortal:Lego Mindstorms/install
Portal:Lego Mindstorms/notesPortal:Lego Mindstorms/reviewPortal:Lego Mindstorms/rover
Portal:Lego Mindstorms/serverPortal:Lego Mindstorms/software

News edit

  • 2010-06-05. Skype call - ISDC update, LEGO competition update, demos for X-Prize
  • 2010-05-09. Skype call - Linux software demo & windows demo & LEGO competition
  • 2010-04-24. Skype call - Need to get and keep people engaged.
  • 2010-03-27. Skype call - Review of installation instructions page
  • 2010-03-13. Skype call - MOUs, requirements, architectures, and software.
  • 2010-02-20. Skype call w. Bill and Marc - update on demos.
  • 2010-01-24. New improved software version 0.4(demo on 2010-01-26 2 pm PDT)
  • 2010-01-12. Skype call this week, new members, new tasks
  • 2009-12-31. Got to get this activity re-started for 2010.
  • 2009-11-24. Pre-holiday demo of software (II)
  • 2009-10-01. Demo of TFN rover broadcast software (I)
  • 2009-09-03. Red Rover code and documentation
  • 2009-08-15. Google Code Project for TFN Lego
  • 2009-07-26. The first Pre-Alpha has been done.
  • 2009-07-23. The LEGO picorover run test has been done
  • 2009-06-22. The Lego Mindstorm portal has been created
  • 2009-05-24. The Mindstorm group has been created

Team members edit


Current activities and details edit

Activity name

  • weekly call 14:00 PDT Lego Mindstorms call at 11 pm Thursday in Berlin and 7 AM Friday in Sydney
  • 2009-11-24 14:00 PDT Skype Mindstorms call + remote control demo at 11 pm Thursday in Berlin and 7 AM Friday in Sydney
  • 2009-08-13 14:00 PDT Lego Mindstorms call at 11 pm Thursday in Berlin and 7 AM Friday in Sydney
  • 2009-07-30 14:00 PDT Lego Mindstorms call at 11 pm, Thursday in Berlin and 7 AM Friday in Sydney
  • 2009-07-23 14:00 PDT Lego Mindstorms call at 11 pm Thursday in Berlin and 7 AM Friday in Sydney
  • 2009-07-16 16:00 PDT Lego Mindstorms Brief call at 1 am Friday in Berlin and 9 AM Friday in Sydney


Portal Details

  • This project is a collaboration of the Rover Group with the Education Group.
  • In contact with Ohio robots team (Sponsor?)
  • Similar to the MCS Rover Director but for students. Same commands, same simplicity (KISS) etc.
  • Simple project developed in 2 month. Due on September.


  • Remote control: A programmed controller and autonomous controller.
  • Bluetooth as a standard for the Lego Rovers communications.
  • Wireless Camera.
  • Rechargable bateries (2-3 hours) and DC input. AC adapter.









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