{"id":178,"date":"2020-01-11T14:56:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T13:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bierkai.nl\/?page_id=178"},"modified":"2020-02-01T16:41:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T15:41:43","slug":"acknowledgements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bierkai.nl\/?page_id=178","title":{"rendered":"Acknowledgements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n

Even whimsical projects such as klust3r<\/a> cannot come to exist without standing on the shoulders of giants. This page lists some big and friendly ones. Note that none of these endorse (or AFAIK are even aware of) klust3r, this site, or myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lego<\/a> format provides a lovely, open-ended playground for children, as well as for those refusing to grow up. I’m especially partial to the Mindstorms<\/a> and Technic<\/a> themes. Lego also provides software to program<\/a> the Mindstorms EV3 brick. And even though it’s not supported anymore, some beginner-level CAD software<\/a> is also still up for grabs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ev3dev<\/a> operating system puts a complete Linux<\/a>-based environment on your Mindstorms EV3 brick, providing an alternative to Lego’s official ecosystem. This allows you to run programs written in any language targeting the platform, e.g. compiling C++ code using the GNU compiler collection<\/a>. The ev3dev API to control the robot’s devices is accessible from C++ through Denis Demidov’s C++ language bindings for ev3dev<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LDraw<\/a> is the de facto standard for Lego modeling and associated stuff. I found Roland Melkert’s LDCad<\/a> to be an excellent choice for modeling. And the temperamental but serviceable LPub3D<\/a> can be persuaded to produce some pretty nice building instructions. LDraw support is ubiquitous on the Interwebs, a.o. personified by<\/p>\n\n\n\n