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| (...) TLG must provide software (firmware) that's "Bullet-Proof" for kids. (most of their users) I prefer a faster version of the firmware, which is why I use BrickOS. These appear mutually exclusive. Is that different from what you're talking (...) (19 years ago, 23-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: mindstorms NXT
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| (...) Right, see my other post about ARM7 and USB (I wish I knew how to link it but this web interface is killing me!). The biggest issue is one of the devices would have to implement a host constoller interface and a USB storage class driver. (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Mindstorms NXT programming languages
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| (...) That would be a fantastic win - keep a very minimal kernel, and drive the software/hardware basics to be practically driven. Many languages could they be built on that -with an SDK that only then places the required language and tools on the (...) (19 years ago, 10-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
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| (...) You mean like one of these? ;) (URL) (...) I've read the replies to this post, but I'll respond here. As far as the cable is concerned, the plug type is irrelevant; it's just a standard. The real determination of "master" and "slave" happens (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Re: Hot Mindstorms NXT News from MacWorld
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| (...) Bill, thanks for the report. The above is what I think most of us speculated but now you have confirmed, multiple NXT's form a piconet! I suspect from the last comment that perhaps the initial firmware only runs one program at a time that has (...) (19 years ago, 11-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | Re: mindstorms NXT and memory
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| (...) Do you mean machine code (binary) or assembly language? I first learned assembly language programming on a MIPS chip (RISC). I've also done it on a Motorola 68HC11 (a microcontroller), and I've written both pure machine code and assembly (...) (19 years ago, 10-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Re: Mindstorms NXT programming languages
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| Hi William (...) not much actually for the subset that Lejos implements. The most complex part of Lejos is the scheduler (multiple threads, waiting on monitors). W.r.t. speed we are faster, but the standard firmware has a more uniform timing. (...) (...) (19 years ago, 12-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Mindstorms NXT programming languages
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| (...) pathetic. On the contrary, the NXT brick has an enormous amount of memory! On the RCX, there's 6K of memory for user programs and datalog in the standard firmware. I can't recall ever seeing a post with a complaint that a NQC program doesn't (...) (19 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: mindstorms NXT and memory
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| (...) off the shelf makes a lot of sense. Think of the development costs of using ARM IP on a custom chip. Suddenly LEGO would become a hardware development group, and the costs would be really high. Even if they used PLAs, they would still have a (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Mindstorms NXT programming languages
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| (...) Sir, if you hand me a straight line like "code my way out of a paper bag", well... I'm only human ;-). So I've got to give Steve a negated hug while he kicks me? Dang, I'm not sure we can do that within the limits of the standard firmware... (...) (19 years ago, 14-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) I think, John, you've finally started us down the right path to (hopefully) put this whole topic to bed. What we're talking about here isn't necessarily a difference between serial FLASH and parallel FLASH. What we're talking about is the (...) (19 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | Re: Mindstorms NXT programming languages
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| (...) You are right when you say the link is Bluetooth. With the RCX the link was IR signals. As long as there is some communication protocol (the more standard, the better) extremely complex logic can get into a robot's behavior. With the RCX I was (...) (19 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NXT - ARM7's and USB
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| In lugnet.robotics, Kevin L. Clague wrote: Your on the right track but your terminology is a little off. USB like many of the next generation protocols is indeed point-to-point. However, the problem is at the protocol level (as you start to point (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Re: Why java is (not) bad for Mindstorms
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| (...) What is the output of the NXT graphical programming environment? I mean the NXT could already have a JIT type execution environment already whereby the graphical IDE generates pseudo-code ("bytecode") and the firmware on the NXT does the (...) (19 years ago, 23-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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mindstorms, firmware
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mindstorms, firmware
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| | Re: Why java is (not) bad for Mindstorms
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| (...) Well my understaing of JIT compiler is that its a part of the actual runtime so I'm not sure how it would be on the PC?! Though you got me thinking (dangerous), perhaps the best way to program the NXT is not to run a binary but instead use an (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Why java is (not) bad for Mindstorms
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| (...) Wrong :) For two reasons: - a JIT is quite complex if you want to really gain something and requires too much memory (remember the NXT only has 64 KB of RAM); - JIT and real-time are not good friends... On top of that, a carefully implemented (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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