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Subject:	Re: NXT Robot Swarm at BrickFest -- featuring Bluetooth
Newsgroups:	lugnet.robotics.nxt
Date:	Fri, 11 Aug 2006 17:47:45 GMT
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It’s good that people are interested!

With the RCX couldn’t you just have a robot broadcast a message to anything that could see the IR signal and was waiting for specific messages to arrive? Can a similar thing be done with BT?

Would we be better off waiting until BrickFest and playing around with the programming then, or try to do some of it ahead of time? Like you said, almost no one owns 4+ NXTs (I just own one), and this is also why I thought BrickFest was a perfect place to try it.

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		Re: NXT Robot Swarm at BrickFest -- featuring Bluetooth
(...) Jordan, I think swarming would be very fun to explore, but, for me, there isn't enough time before BF. Here's something you could play around with before BF: (URL) by getting your robot to follow the line on the test pad. To answer your (...) (18 years ago, 11-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)

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		Re: NXT Robot Swarm at BrickFest -- featuring Bluetooth
(...) The problem (I think; somebody want to prove me wrong?) is that the "master" NXT can send messages to at most three "slave" NXTs, but the "slaves" can not then act as BT masters to still more units. In other words, it seems very very easy to (...) (18 years ago, 11-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)

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