SVU's blog

12 Jan 2007

LEGO and Linux

I spent some time trying to make LabVIEW/Win32 shipped with
Mindstorm work under wine. Thanks to Daniel Skorka for some
insightful tips (in comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine). So,
finally LabVIEW started but … now full stop, they are
using special Windows device “LEGO MINDSTORM NXT” (they even
care to create special device class “LEGO Devices”!) – so
wine cannot help me after
this point, since wine does not handle windows device drivers.

Yes, I know there are more powerful tools (like NBC,
ICommand etc) – but I need some GUI-based IDE allowing to
program without text editing. LabVIEW is a really nice tool,
I must admit (and it seems to be based on the mozilla
codebase BTW)

I know NI ships LabVIEW/Linux but AFAIK there is no linux
driver for Mindstorm.

Sad…