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(...) Dan, Once you get your hands on an NXT I encourage you to try. Sounds like you have considered the costs and it might work. Don't wait for permission from us! Just try it. Often when people say it can't be done, I just consider it a challenge. (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Code, may be. But I can easily imagine large data usage in many applications. Example 1: Robot that can play pre-recorded messages. "Danger, Will Robinson!". A robot that can talks base on what it encounters is both fun and help debugging. (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(...) Steve, Would you say that the above paragraph is a well thought out, coherent argument? Have you ever actually read a post by John or myself where we claim that LEGO can do no wrong? Or are you simply supposing that because we disagree with (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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What you say below is entirely true, up to a point. Note that most Lego stuff (and this is true outside Lego -- it applies to most controller code I've seen for robotics) is now using bytecode interpreters. The memory advantages far outweigh the CPU (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Steve, no matter how you look at it, adding that greater potential would have increased the price. Not just the $10 or whateva for the memory, but the extra development time needed to integrate it. Hell they could have just included a (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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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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(...) Benton, In the world of electronics it is typically cheaper to buy what you need off the shelf than it is to create your own custom chip, unless you are going to have extremely high volume sales. When it costs $100,000 or more to fabricate a (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Maybe that was the case many years ago, but things have definitely changed over the years, causing LEGO to adopt new practices. (Just look at the introduction of flesh-toned minifigs, for example) (...) MUP = Mindstorms User Panel. A dozen or (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Another more likely option is that they put the ram and flash ram on the same custom chip as the ARM. Not only would this reduce the parts count, but it would save pinout and simplify the circuit board. (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Take a look at C++ - which has the Java-type Object-Oriented stuff whilst retaining all the things you liked about C. Some people (like me) claim that C++ has the best of both worlds. Other people (mostly Java enthusiasts) claim that it (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Try Deans or other RC car plugs: (URL) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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