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(...) Well, let me make my position clear. I want more memory too, and I understand Danny and Steve B. want for more memory too. But you can't get somethin for nuttin'. My initial reaction was "64K !?!? You mean M right? DRAM is cheap!". But LEGO (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) EXACTLY. And my three-month-old cell phone has 4M of memory (which is needs because it has a camera in it), but my not-born-yet NXT will have 256k+64k. Over eight years, most devices have increased in memory capacity by a factor of maybe 100 (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Kevin, While I agree with your points regarding cost/features; and I can understand the view of the "need more memory" crowd. I think what needs to be expressed more "eloquently" is the fact that while starting from the ground up, Lego seemed (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Sorry Steve, But, are you saying because ~YOU~ or your group can not imagine it, then is should not or cannot be done? Chris (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Hi Dan, Your desire to have cutting edge robotics computing technology at your fingertips is compelling and *very* understandable. The robotics challenges you want to overcome sound very interesting. Where you and I differ is expecting to be (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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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 (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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good analysis. Also keep in mind that Lego sells primarily through retail resellers, so their take is considerably less than the SRP. (Even the Lego stores have huge overhead, being in expensive malls). To sell a product like this at < $250 and make (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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What would I like to implement that won't fit in 256K... check out this list of modules from Pyro: # PyroModuleDirectControl # PyroModuleSequencingControl # PyroModuleBehaviorBasedControl # PyroModuleReinforcementLearning # PyroModuleNeuralNetworks (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) (speaking out from the peanut gallery) I had a big message going about this, but ROSCO has save me the time to type it. Ditto on all the above. LEGO had a price point they wouldn't budge from. According to the Wired article, more than one of (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Now this is funny. Are you suggesting (A) JB doesn't know much about hardware or (B) JB doesn't know about LEGO's development process? If you select (A) or (B), you should rethink your answer. On Fri, January 13, 2006 1:23 pm, steve wrote: (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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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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