[HN Gopher] Dumping Lego NXT firmware off of an existing brick (...
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       Dumping Lego NXT firmware off of an existing brick (2025)
        
       Author : theblazehen
       Score  : 116 points
       Date   : 2026-03-06 07:17 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arcanenibble.github.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arcanenibble.github.io)
        
       | tripdout wrote:
       | Love the way this is written with "questions" interspersed
       | throughout to explain more about the steps taken. Adds good
       | context that makes it very easy to follow.
        
         | captn3m0 wrote:
         | +1. I knew some of those things and could skim/skip but learned
         | a few things from the other ones. Well written.
        
       | peddling-brink wrote:
       | Neat article, well written, and easy to understand (mostly) by a
       | non-embedded engineer.
        
       | robotnikman wrote:
       | Oh man, I had both the NXT and the original Mindstorms Lego
       | robotics kit as a kid, brings back so many memories. I mostly
       | made robots that tried to chase the cat around while trying to
       | avoid falling down the stairs (half the time unsuccessfully). I
       | even tried at one point using Java to develop programs for them,
       | as there was a small community of people doing so online, and
       | even some books at the local library.
       | 
       | Reading this article provides some great insights into the
       | innards of the NXT which I never knew of back them (and probably
       | also could not entirely comprehend back when I was young). This
       | article also reminded me that I still have the NXT and all the
       | parts sitting around in a box somewhere; maybe I should try and
       | dig them out and make something with them, though I don't have
       | any ideas for what I should make exactly.
        
         | fragmede wrote:
         | > though I don't have any ideas for what I should make exactly.
         | 
         | That was the best part! You'd turn the box of Lego over and
         | dump it all on the ground and sit down and start building and
         | then suddenly you'd get inspired and an idea would pop into
         | your head and flow mode would engage and you'd lose the next
         | couple of hours just building whatever. Eventually mom/dad/the
         | babysitter would pull you away for food, and maybe you'd talk
         | them into bringing your creation to the dining table so you'd
         | actually eat, but either way, just losing time to building
         | things definitely formed my personality and forged my identity
         | growing up.
        
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