Wow this is pretty cool. I have written some C (NXC, really [1]) programs for Mindstorms and it was super fun. I built a little rover-like car and wrote a program that would make the car play with my cat in the living room. It didn't work very well, but the idea of writing programs where the output was moving an object in the physical world was novel and very pleasing. I encourage everyone here to give it a shot.<p>In order to test out a new program, I had to hook the brick up to my computer via USB, then copy the program over, then run it by pressing a series of buttons on the brick. Also there wasn't a good way to get debug logs in real-time (it's hard to read the screen when it's driving around the living room). Hopefully with Linux that process will get easier. The idea of SSHing into a Mindstorms brick, running a program, and watching the debugs logs on stdout is very exciting.<p>1. <a href="http://bricxcc.sourceforge.net/nbc/" rel="nofollow">http://bricxcc.sourceforge.net/nbc/</a>