This article provides instructions for installing the necessary drivers to use the RCX USB tower with ROBOLAB for LabVIEW. These instructions have been tested on Mac OS X 10.9 and 10.10 as well as 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7.

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For RCX USB tower support…

1. Install LabVIEW for LEGO MINDSTORMS and/or the relevant MINDSTORMS add-on. See https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-15615 for more details and links to these downloads.

2. Install ROBOLAB for LabVIEW.

3. Install NI-VISA…

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• Windows: http://www.ni.com/download/ni-visa-14.0.1/5023/en/
• Mac OS X: http://www.ni.com/download/ni-visa-14.0/4913/en/

4. If installing on Windows, you will have to run the VISA Wizard

a. Find it in your Start menu

b. Choose USB:

c. Select the LEGO tower (the tower must be plugged in to appear):

d. Give your INF files a name (default is fine)

e. Allow the wizard to install and hit finish.

f. Restart LabVIEW and run ROBOLAB for LabVIEW (Tools > Robolab 2.9.4d…)

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While getting my old LegoMindstorms (an RCX 2.0 setup) set up for my little brother to play with, I learned some thigns about using it with newer versions of Windows (Windows 7 in my case). I found out here that there is a patch needed for the USB IR tower, which resolves the problem of the system locking up when the tower is plugged in. You can download it here: http://cache.lego.com/downloads/education/tower164.zip.
After installing this, things will run fine, unless you decide to use the official program and launch it more than once. At which point you will see a message like 'A critical error has occurred. You may be running out of memory, or you may needto reinstall Robotics Invention System 2.0.' The solution to this is a bit messy. There is a file left behind here
Vista/Win7: C:Users<user>AppDataLocalTempRis 2.0.mov.#res
XP: C:Documents andSettings<user>Application DataTempRis 2.0.mov.#res
This file must be deleted each time before the program is launched. What I did was create a batch script to do this, and a Visual Basic script to launch the batch script (so it could happen without launching a command prompt window).

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You'll find both scripts here: https://gist.github.com/1531705
I recommend replacing all shortcuts to theLaunchRis2.exe with a shortcut to the Visual Basic script. Note that the VB script assumes you will put put the batch script in

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%PROGRAMFILES(X86)%LEGO MINDSTORMSlaunchRis.bat

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(or

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%PROGRAMFILES%LEGO MINDSTORMSlaunchRis.bat on a 32 bit system), but you can easily edit the script to change the location.

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Of course, this second problem is irrelevant if you decide to write the programs youself (I preferred this over the graphical tool Lego provided). There are several languages available.

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Let me know if you have suggestions for improvement or run into any issues.