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Teach programming and engineering with Lego Mindstorms Robotics kits and open-source software. This tutorial is one of the more comprehensive free resources for this kind of endeavor. leJOS is is just one of several available replacement firmwares (with accompanying APIs and sometimes IDEs) for the Lego Mindstorms RCX brick. An RCX brick is large yellow Lego-style brick about 6.5 x 10 x 4.5 cm's. It contains a processor and 32kb of RAM. The RCX brick has 3 output ports for motors, 3 input ports for sensors, a speaker, four buttons and an LCD. The RCX brick is the "brain" for robots created with Lego. This brick is fully programmable in many languages, including leJOS Java.

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• Academic Support Services  / Faculty Development  / Course and Instruction Design

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