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Kevin L. Clague wrote: > What you need to do is to make a dongle for your laptop PC > with 8G DRAM, a 1 terabyte hard disk, that gives you an infinite > number of LEGO NXT compatible motor ports and sensor ports. > > You will probably have to drill (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Maybe you could go look and see. Kev (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) There is certainly a huge difference - but given that the NXT has RAM and 'broad-side' Flash on-chip, the bulk of the flash only has to function as backing storage...like a disk drive. (...) You can page executable stuff into RAM as needed. (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Ah, I missed that one. No need to make a custom chip if they've already got one- and since it has a sufficient amount of ram and flash on board, there isn't much choice. Unless there are similar chips out there with more? (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) That's because most people have a reasonable 'feel' for what will fit into the RCX and won't even attempt to fit in something that they can tell just by looking won't come close to fitting. I *KNOW* without looking that I can't do image (...) (20 years ago, 13-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 (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Agreed! And if they did come up with a PC in a brick, you'd have to put new batteries in it every few minutes :) JB (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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I've seen mention of improvements to the light sensor and also the change from analogue to digital interfacing. I think an improvement to the light sensor, by making it pulse the LED at a frequency that can be filtered - a lot higher than 50 or 60Hz (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Er ... Is there an apples and oranges problem here? You are referring to serial memory devices used for data storage versus broad side FLASH which permits the CPU to execute from it. If the CPU were to be crippled by executing from a SD memory (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Steve, What you need to do is to make a dongle for your laptop PC with 8G DRAM, a 1 terabyte hard disk, that gives you an infinite number of LEGO NXT compatible motor ports and sensor ports. You will probably have to drill a few technic pin (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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