The software behind the new Lego Mindstorms NXT are only “days aways” from being published as open source. Apparently Lego is right now in the final phase of finding out precisely which of the public domain licenses to use.<\/p>\n
When released, devellopers around the world will be given the possibility of modifying the software themselves. For example, the Mindstorms software is by default only able to coordinate two of the motors of the robot at the same time. This could be changed by clever users.<\/p>\n
Lego excepts users to be able to make considerable improvements to the software, and to implement such modifications in future official releases.<\/p>\n
All this according to S\u00f8ren Lund of Lego at the CustomerMade conference today.<\/p>\n
About S\u00f8ren Lund and Lego Mindstorms Live blogging from\u00a0CustomerMade More posts from CustomerMade The software behind the new Lego Mindstorms NXT are only “days aways” from being published as open source. Apparently Lego is right now in the final phase of finding out precisely which of the public domain licenses to use. When released, devellopers around the world will be given the possibility of modifying the software themselves.… L\u00e6s mere »Breaking news: Lego only days aways from launching Mindstorms as open source (CustomerMade liveblogging # 7)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3777,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/3777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jon-lund.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>The official conference presentation of\u00a0S\u00f8ren Lund and Lego Mindstorm\u00a0reads: Few companies have realized the significance and potential of a product\u2019s development sequence like LEGO has. The users were involved in earnest when the ground-breaking Mindstorm NXT robots were in the making. LEGO approached dedicated fans and asked for their help in developing the next version of the robot toys. Not alone did the users submit suggested designs, they also developed the hardware that ended up being implemented. S\u00f8ren Lund will describe a development process with the users as designers; he will outline what future perspectives LEGO sees in ordinary people co-producing products, and which problems that might occur in the pipeline.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>This post is brought to you live blogging (well, this particular paragraph was actually written in advance just yesterday evening) from the The CustomerMade conference<\/a>\u00a0– one day of focus on usergenerated content, products and services: about how \u201cthe market itself is taking over all phases of production, from concept development and design to finished product\u201d as the official website reads. Arranged by O\u2019Reilly Media<\/a> and Innovation Lab<\/a> in corporation with\u00a0\u00a0Foreningen af Danske InternetMedier<\/a> (my organisation) \u2013 the IAB Denmark, among others.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Here’s my other posts written during the day from CustomerMade:<\/p>\n\n