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Re: mindstorms NXT and memory
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 9 Jan 2006 23:55:26 GMT
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steve <sjbaker1@airmailSPAMCAKE.net>
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Rob Antonishen wrote:
> On 1/9/06, Brian Davis wrote:
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> > bad. And I *love* the idea of perhaps building a robot that a bystander could
> > interat with via their cell phones :-). The question there, as somebody else
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> I keep hearing this (and reading in the official press releases) but
> having recently shopped for a cell phone, I can tell you that everyone
> available here (Ontario) that I can find has the bluetooth crippled to
> it will ONLY talk to bluetooth headsets. Can't even use them for
> address book sync with a PC.
That's because you can actually catch a phone virus via bluetooth
(it's not very secure).
My wife's phone caught one - and it was a pain to get rid of.
> This tells me that the likelihood of a NXT bot controlled by a
> cellphone is NILL.
Well, not NIL - but less likely than perhaps you might like.
However, it's gonna be useful for having robots talk back to
a PC or to each other. That's good enough for me.
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| (...) I keep hearing this (and reading in the official press releases) but having recently shopped for a cell phone, I can tell you that everyone available here (Ontario) that I can find has the bluetooth crippled to it will ONLY talk to bluetooth (...) (18 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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