News

• 2009-11-13: Due to problems with air conditioning in our server room, the website server was down for the weekend (till Nov 16) to avoid hardware failure. We are very sorry for the inconvenience and are hopefully constantly back online now.

• 2009-10-06: RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox v4.02 (stable) is now available.

• 2009-08-31: RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox v4.01 is now available.

• 2009-07-24: New design of download-page, all versions available for direct download now.

• 2009-07-20: RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox v4.00 (beta) is now available (next generation motor control).

• 2009-07-17: RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox v3.00 (beta) is now available.

• 2009-05-19: New webpage layout: Many thanks to André Bell for managing and creating the cool Trac style sheets.

• 2009-04-17: RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox v2.04 milestone (internal development, available in svn folder "tags")

• 2009-01-23: RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox v2.03 is now available! (optimized motor control!)

• 2009-01-07: Acta Polytechnica: Journal of Advanced Engineering
  
  "First Steps into Practical Engineering for Freshman Students Using MATLAB and LEGO Mindstorms Robots" (PDF Download)

• 2008-12-10: 2nd education project using this toolbox took place at the RWTH Aachen University ( MATLAB meets LEGO Mindstorms)

• 2008-11-12: RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox v2.02 milestone (internal development, available in svn folder "tags")

• 2008-10-27: RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox v2.01 milestone (internal development, available in svn folder "tags")

• 2008-09-30: RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox v2.00 is now available! (USB support!)

• 2008-08-21: The MathWorks publishes "Freshman Engineers Build MATLAB Powered LEGO Robots" article in  'MATLAB Digest | Academic Edition'. ( PDF Download)

• 2008-07-18: RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox v2.00beta is now available! (USB support!)

• Proposal for new toolbox commands with USB support, discussion about changes for toolbox version 2.00.

• 2008-05-15: Poster presentation on the 12th international student conference POSTER 2008 (award winner )
  
  "Practicing Engineering in a First-Year Student Project: MATLAB meets LEGO Mindstorms"

• 2008-04-29: NXT-USB communication successfully tested (using official LEGO Mindstorms NXT Fantom Driver Version 1.02 on Windows and libusb on Linux).

• 2008-04-17: A new voluntary student workshop is established (see Projects)

• 2008-04-01: Project article in the RWTHinsight magazine is published (see In the Press).

• 2008-02-06: RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox Web Page is published

• 2008-01-29: RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox v1.00 is now available!

• 2008-01-28: 50th anniversary of the LEGO brick

• 2008-01-12: First education project using this toolbox took place at the RWTH Aachen University ( MATLAB meets LEGO Mindstorms)