Success! I have completed step 1 of my robotic world domination plan! I now have a laptop with Eclipse and leJOS installed, which can control my newly-flashed Lego Mindstorms NXT brick! The tutorial is actually really easy to follow. I used Linux, which required me to manually set the control brick into 'firmware updating mode', but that was a piece of cake. Setting up Eclipse was also fairly straightforward, following the instructions here . The only gotchas I encountered were: - Setting up udev rules to allow me to access the control brick via USB. Solution: After creating the rules file, remember to add yourself to the 'lego' group and restart the PC! - Connection to control brick kept failing in 'PC' mode. I could upload a program and run it from a 'leJOS NXT project', but not have the PC run an application that remote controls the brick. Solution: Needed to install it onto a 32bit OS (thankfully I had a laptop which fit the bill
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