History of Lejos

[yaes]

Hello everybody,

as a part of my studies I had to program a simple Lego robot finding a ball within his movement area. I just finished the coding part and right now I'm working on the documentation. I would like to give a short introduction to lejos, how it was founded, how the idea came up to port java to mindstorms etc..

Who can I ask those and more questions and how can I get in contact to him/her?

thx in advance
Alex

[JavaMan]

I found this on wikipedia.

leJOS was originally conceived as TinyVM and developed by José Solórzano in late 1999. It started out as a hobby open source project, which he later forked into what is known today as leJOS. Many contributors joined the project and provided important enhancements. Among them, Brian Bagnall, Jürgen Stuber and Paul Andrews, who later took over the project as José essentially retired from it.

A port to the new Lego Mindstorms NXT has been available since January 2007. This is far faster (x15 or so) than the RCX version, has more memory available, a menu system, Bluetooth support and many of the NXT features.

[yaes]

thx, are there any further infos?

[Machiel]

Any Updates on the history?

Edit:
I have translated the text from wikipedia to Dutch:

Lejos is een vervanging voor de standaard NXT firmware die op de brick. leJOS was allereerst ontwikkeld onder een andere naam, namelijk TinyVM en is ontwikkeld door José Solórzano eind 1999. Het begon als een hobby open soucre project, wat hij later heeft uitgebreid tot het huidige leJOS. Tegenwoordig is de ontwikkeling van leJOS onder leiding van programmeur Paul Andrews, José Solórzano is uit het project gestapt.

leJOS is oorspronkelijk ontiwikkeld voor de oudere versie van Lego Mindstorms; de RCX, maar in januari 2007 is leJOS ook overgezet naar de NXT module. Deze is ongeveer 15x sneller, heeft meer geheugen, een bluetooth mogelijkheid en heeft nu ook een menu. (Zie figuur 1.1)

[gloomyandy]

You will have to do a little work, but this side provides an interesting view of code activity over the last year or two...

http://www.ohloh.net/p/11384/commits

Andy

[Machiel]

I've made a dutch wikipedia:

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeJOS

Not much but it's something.

[hillton]

I have to say that this post was really informative in letting me know about how lejos came into being. I really was quite shocked to learn that leJOS was actually believed to be TinyVM. So this brings us to a conclusion regarding leJOS that it is almost twelve years old.Has anyone used dedicated server for hosting? Is cloud hosting the same?

[mike65]

Any complete info?

[Rickz2020]

LeJOS has even been on-board the ISS in 2001

The wikipeadia link above mentions it - the robot was called "jitter".

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