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No big announcement from the LEGO side, but it seems that the source code for the 1.29 firmware is now available at the LEGO website. You can download it right here: [LINK]. As per usual, the naming standard of LEGO’s downloadable files will make identifying the file super easy.
In order to compile this, you will need a copy of IAR’s Embedded Workbench for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT. It’s free and you can download it here: [LINK].
Now that these sources have been released, I’m sure it won’t be long before John Hansen will be able to release the sources for his enhanced firmware.
This may be a dumb question, but does it matter if you have NXT 1.0 or 2.0? All I have is 1.0.
They won’t do you any good unless you intend to actually change something to the firmware or learn from it. NXT 1.0 should work with the new firmware but there would be no real reason to use it. If you were using NXC then there would be a point to using 1.29 if you only have NXT-G 1.0
Xander,
Is the NXT-G 1.0 still the version for the NXT or is there a newer version.
TXT
Jan Kromhout
Hellevoetsluis-NL
Jan,
NXT-G 1.1 and 2.0 have been released already since 1.0. You can’t get 2.0 unless you own an NXT 2.0 box. However, you don’t really need any of the features in NXT-G 2.0 unless you have one of those new colour sensors or a need for floating point numbers.
Xander
Hi,
I have to modify 1.29 firmware so that when uploaded to NXT brick the menu would be in my native language.
I have downloaded source firmware and IAR lego workbench. I have tried to find soem kind of guide how to use IAR workbench to create my own firmware file, but so far i out of luck. Does anyone know if there is such guide or maybe some one can contact me directly and give some directions how to use IAR lego workbench.
Thanks
There is some info in the documentation that comes with the firmware, I believe. I don’t have the workbench installed anymore and it’s been ages since I last played with it.
Hi,
Thanks for responding so quickly. Meanwhile i have done some digging in internet and found one page:
http://code.google.com/p/legonxtfirmwareturkish/w/list.
There are small guides how to make firmware into turkish language.Can’t confirm yet that this is going to wotk, bu i will try to make estonian version of firmware using those guides.