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| (...) The size of the flash on the NXT is ridiculously small compared to almost any other consumer-grade embedded systems. Look at cheap digital cameras, PDA's, handheld game systems, thumb drives, MP3 players and cell phones. Name one of them with (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) I read that too - but there was a discussion about this on the Lego entry of Wikipedia and it seems that this may just be urban legend. Consider the VAST number of military parts that Lego makes - there are Lego guns, rockets, knives, swords, (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
| |  | | 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 (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Someone posted here about a month ago saying that they didn't really like the Lego colours and would swap all of his for gray bricks given the chance... There was a show over Christmas in the UK about classic toys and, no surprise, Lego was (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| In fairness, although the NXT has a small amount of memory, you're talking about porting a high level interpreted language like Python to a low-cost embedded platform. For my sins, my day job consists of developing code that must cross compile (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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