Comments on: Lego Robotics Invention System on Ubuntu Linux

By: Twonky

Twonky — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:38:12 +0000

Thanks a lot. That was exact the information I need to get the RCX running on Ubuntu 9.04

By: tepepa

tepepa — Thu, 07 May 2009 09:43:12 +0000

Thanks a lot for this! I had the NQC running but was stuck with a ‘Problem talking to IR device’ message. I guess I was missing the linking and the Export command.
This works on Puppy Linux by the way.

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By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:30:11 +0000

Thank you very much for this, I just bought the RIS 2.0 off eBay, and thought that I’d made a bit of mistake when windows pooh poohed it, but thanks to you, I have it working (and programming it in Java too, but that’s another thing).

So thank you for all your help, and for being so cute too!

By: Stew Boling

Stew Boling — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:25:16 +0000

Hi Trevor,
I figured out how to make nqc use /dev/usb/legousbtower0 instead of /dev/usb/lego0 use a sudo gedit /rcxlib/ RCX_USBTowerPipe_linux.cpp and edit line #define DEFAULT_TOWER_NAME “/dev/usb/lego0″ to #define DEFAULT_TOWER_NAME “/dev/usb/legousbtower0″ and it will work whenever you plug in the tower

By: Stew Boling

Stew Boling — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:01:58 +0000

Hi Trevor,

Ubuntu recently updated their udev package and the usb tower now mounts at /dev/usb/legotower0. the rest of the tutorial works! Thank you for this great tutorial, it has been a life saver.

-Stew

By: Trevor

Trevor — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:20:47 +0000

Hi Stew,
I haven’t used this in a while, but I believe the problem lies in this step:
sudo ln -s /dev/legousbtower0 /dev/usb/lego0

Basically, NQC expects the tower to be at /dev/usb/lego0, but Ubuntu puts it at /dev/legousbtower0. I would assume Kubuntu puts it in the same place, but if you figure out where it is, and edit the above command appropriately, it should work.

By: Stew Boling

Stew Boling — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:06:06 +0000

Hi, I’m trying t use NQC for my research project and I’m running it in kubuntu 7.04 which I downgraded to from 8.04 and I followed the directions and when I enter “nqc -msg 7″ I get “Could not open serial port or USB device
” Any advice would be greatly appreciated and thank you in advance

-Stew Boling

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By: Glen McCarthy

Glen McCarthy — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:02:59 +0000

Hi Trevor,

Thank you for your article. It has helped me and my Yr9/10 robotics class (and certainly many others) to use linux with the rcx bricks.
Thanks for including some Tony Campolo quotes. We rarely see him here in Australia. He is a challenging voice for anyone who is seriously trying to follow Jesus. I guess I’ll just have to read more of his books.

God bless,
Glen