Is Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 Mountain Lion Compatible?

I found a fix to the problem that worked for me.

1. Open the location of the disk and click the file "LEGOMindstormsEngRet.mpkg"

The installation should take place and will install the software.

Once it is installed it should work like normal.

2. If you do not have the disk, you can download the file from here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4mh82a0a8uz36j2/Lego_Install.zip

Unzip the file and run the .mpkg file.

Thanks for the advise, 567legodude. It worked for me but then my mac wanted to upgrade my adobe flash player and once I did that the mindstorms stopped working. Frustrating!!!

567Legodude: Did the fix you made solve the bluetooth problem? I don't want to do yet another step if it won't :-)

We have two Mindstorms, one we purchased less than a year ago. The first one came with software from 2009; the second with software from September, 2011. After I uninstalled Flash and all Mindstorms software, I reinstalled the newer version of the software (when I tried to install the older version, it said it wasn't compatible with the Mac). I'm running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 (11C74).

We've opened it for the first time and my son is programming. So far it's working, but who knows what will happen...

HerraHoo,

Do you know what verion of Flash player you're running?

Thank you to Matt Knight for posting the link so that I could get my Mindstorm working on my Mac OSX. I'm not savvying with this at all and knew the Mindstorm used to work when I opened the software. It didn't occur to me that upgrading would cause a problem.

Can anyone here help me with my next issue. Being very neive when I bought the NXT Robot, I thought it was drop and drag and my son could use his Robot. I had no idea I would or my son would have to program the Robot. What is the best information for me to use to learn how to make the Robot work. I'm not an idiot I just don't know where to start to learn how to use the Robot. Thank you for your help again.

Same frustrations with Bluetooth. Given up on it really. I still use a snow leopard MacBook for the NXT projects.

Good resource for learning NXT at

http://www.nxtprograms.com/index.html

Lots of project instructions, sample files, and suggested challenges.

Enjoy.

I have also left one of my Macs on Snow Leopard just for Mindstorms. You would think Lego would do a better job of supporting Macs because their demographics probably overlap quite a bit (high income households and/or education). I suspect it is their dependence on NI's LabView that limits Mac support.

My hope now is that they do a better job with EV3's software.

I use Labview 2011 with my LEGO projects and find it works fine ; in my limited usage.

Mountain lion and Labview are compatible. However their server side applications are Windows only.

Maybe this workaround helps you: http://blog.jens-wurster.de/index.php/2013/05/23/workaround-for-connecting-mac-o s-x-10-8-and-mindstorm-nxt-over-bluetooth/

Thank you so much. I will try this solution later after class and report back 🙂

michael

re. My hope now is that they do a better job with EV3's software.

I just atteneded an EV3 workshop where i got to play with the new software. Very nice. The main points are that the higher priced 'brick' is WiFi enabled (yes, there will be a non-WiFi 'brick' version apparently), and the program is Mac compatible. In the workshop we were using Win7 and crashed twice in 3 hours .. but then it was Windows 😁

See picture here.

http://www.mvallance.net/mvallance/BLOG/BLOG.html

Michael

The Bluetooth signal was receievd by the NXT brick as I heard the significant 'beep' and saw CONNECT in Mindstorms browser window BUT I could not pair because in all 5 NXT bricks I have all display screens are damaged so I could not enter the Pairing passcode 😐

So close ....

Default pairing passcode is "1234".

Yes, although I can type on my macbook, I cannot see NXT display on brick as displays are damaged on all 5 bricks..

So cannot type 1234 on NXT brick.

Michael