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| (...) Yes. And the Swan firmware is about that much faster, with a lot of added things as well, and I can still essentially use all my NQC code and tricks. BrickOS is much faster, etc. I guess my point was that I hope the NXT is faster (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Actually, when using the standard firmware speed is very much a concern with the RCX for me... and others, if things like the Swan firmware are anything to go by. Currently, using NQC, I need to examine the bytecode generated to try to (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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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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| (...) 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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| 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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| (...) 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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| (...) 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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| (...) 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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| (...) 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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| Hi Brian, (...) On the RCX Lejos is about that much faster than the standard firmware, and we have 1ms timer resolution. (...) You also get those in Lejos, and compared to NQC it can access more memory. Jürgen (19 years ago, 8-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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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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| (...) 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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| (...) While I realise you mean USB powering the NXT, one thing that also sprang to mind is would it be possible to get the NXT in some cases to act as a USB host as opposed to a device. This would depend on how much of its USB stack is implemented (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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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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| (...) 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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| Now this I like. The most important thing for LEGO is to make the thing open. Complete documents for the following should be on the LEGO mindstorms web site somewhere: The physical pinout and makeup of the new wire jacks (looks similar to RJ45 or (...) (19 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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