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Re: Why NQC over Robolab?
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lugnet.robotics
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Sun, 12 Dec 2004 14:11:24 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Thomas Johnson wrote:
> In lugnet.robotics, John Hansen wrote:
> > If the latter then NQC already supports the MicroScout and the Code Pilot for
> > both the Scout and the Spybot targets (and via custom NQC headers files the
> > RCX).
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> It is the latter.
Then I would like to announce that NQC supports the MicroScout and CodePilot
bricks. It has had this support for several years.
> > Does Robolab support the Spybot? If not, why not?
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> I've never messed w/a spybot so I can't give a definitive answer but if the
> spybot is controlled via VLL, then it should be supported.
The Spybot is a fully programmable lego brick like the RCX and Scout. Like the
Scout its firmware is in ROM. It has about 4K available for user programs (only
one program slot). It doesn't have a datalog, but it has a large EEPROM area
for storing data. It has very powerful IR features for communicating with other
Spybots (as well as Scout and RCX bricks). It has VLL output capability. It is
the least expensive programmable brick available, but it is also the least
flexible with respect to its outputs and inputs (sensors and motors are all
built-in).
To say that Robolab has support for the Spybot would require that a user could
write a program in Robolab targeted for the Spybot, with blocks that
specifically represented its capabilities for finding and tracking the position
of other Spybots, defining and using LED animations, defining and using sound
effects, EEPROM reading/writing, etc...
NQC has a Spybot API which provides a programmer with direct access to all the
Spybot capabilities, from those it has in common with the RCX2 firmware to those
that are unique to the Spybot firmware.
John Hansen
http://bricxcc.sourceforge.net/nqc/
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Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: Why NQC over Robolab?
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| (...) I suspected as much. (...) Well crud. Now I'm going to have to go out and get one of those things. (...) Suffice to say, Robolab does not currently support the Spybot. Sounds like an interesting project though.... Tom (19 years ago, 13-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Why NQC over Robolab?
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| (...) It is the latter. (...) I've never messed w/a spybot so I can't give a definitive answer but if the spybot is controlled via VLL, then it should be supported. Tom (19 years ago, 11-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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