leJOS is a tiny (~ 16 Kb) Open Source Java-based operating system for the LEGO MINDSTORMS™ RCX,
i.e. Hitachi H8300.
It supports the RCX versions 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0 and works with the serial IR Tower as well as with the USB one.
History
The first release was developed by Jose Solarzano and eventually forked out of the
TinyVM project.
Features
The software consists mainly of three parts:
a Virtual machine for the execution of Java bytecode
an API for RCX programming on top of this VM
additional software tools
It features
Object oriented language
Preemptive threads
Multi-dimensional arrays
Recursion
Synchronization
Floating point operations
String constants
java.lang.Math class
For more information you might want to visit the leJOS project homepage at
http://www.lejos.org.
The leJOS Tutorial
