Dumping Lego NXT firmware off of an existing brick (2025)

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.

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.

Neat article, well written, and easy to understand (mostly) by a non-embedded engineer.