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• NXT_Python is a package for controlling a LEGO NXT robot using the Python programming language. It can communicate using either USB or Bluetooth. It is available under the Free Software Foundation's GPL license. It was developed on Fedora Core (Linux), but it has been reported to work on Windows XP and Mac OS X as well.
  

• Python/Bluetooth Support for Lego Mindstorms NXT on Mac OS X
  

• PyNXT is a library and a console program for controlling via Bluetooth or USB the Lego Mindstorms NXT Brick. nxtConsole lets you upload, download and delete files from the NXT. With nxtProtocol you can make a program that uses the NXT Bluetooth protocol.
  

• python-nxt
  

• Alcides Fonseca "Last week I borrowed a Lego Mindstorms NXT Educational Set from the Physics Department to use in the last class I’m giving to 13 year old kids about programming with Python."
  

• ActiveState Recipe: Lego Mindstorms Bluetooth interface
  

• Lego Logic gates
  

• Datalogging Disney Rides with NXT and accelerometer
  

• Legways Segway-style balancing wheeled vehicles
  

• Pylnp is a Python extension for the LegOS LNP library. This allows you to write Python scripts on Linux that talk to your LegOS application on the RCX, using the IR link.
  

• Tuxbot programming with Python
  

• RFID reader for LEGO NXT using Arduino
  

• Homebrew Lego Sensors

• Meccano Gear Cutting machine
  

• Meccano Braiding machine

• Erector, Meccano, K'nex (Physical Computing 283)
  

• Digicomp plastic mechanical computer kit
  

• Tinysaurs