Hey everyone,

If you’ve read my blog very much, you’ll know that I tinker around with Mindstorms Robots quite a lot. I’ve been getting more and more advanced with them recently, programming with LeJos (Java for Mindstorms). So I set out to make a mapping robot (one that could drive around the room and make a map of the room) but first I did some Googling. I found PenemuNXT – a amazing project where two guys have already been able to have a robot make a map of a room and map it on the computer.

Now my first question was – ‘How can I get the code to work on my robot?”

So I downloaded the source from the SVN and loaded it into Eclipse. *three days later* I finally get all the errors to go away after modifying everything. Then I attempt to run it on the robot and a weird Java error comes up, crashing the robot.

So I might be able to get this to work eventually – but I am looking to the PenemuNXT Guys to please give us a .rbt file of the final program. They haven’t updated the project for almost a year now – and nobody responded to my email. Is the project dead?

This looks like a project which the community needs to adopt – it is a really good idea and a great robotics implementation.

See you later,

Christian Stewart