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(...) As a software engineer, I'd have to ask why LEGO would choose to write (and support) two versions of the software. And, how accurate are the marketing specs (that may have been written six or eight months ago) for a product that may still be (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) There are things like this that people could actually start on right now. You know the RCX uses IR and you know the message format. You know the NXT has Bluetooth. The only thing you don't know is the message format. How much work can be done (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi Ross, (...) I'm sure third-party environments won't have this limitation. More interesting is whether a NXT Brick can be a Bluetooth master, so that NXTs can talk with each other without a host, form networks and swarm all over the place :-) (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) As an electronics engineer, my focus would be on circuits and interfaces. I'll leave the software and firmware to software experts! Firstly, for the benefit of the program, I'd reverse engineer the NXT interface (sensor, motor, power) (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I have a great deal of experience with GPS. The accuracy you mention is indeed correct (the GPS I'm looking at right now is specd at 5 meters horizontal accuracy). However, when you look at second-by-second accuracy, it is much better. A great (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) What do you consider "ludicrously huge"? Java for robots in fact does not require a virtual machine at all, it can run on a Java implementation in silicon. We've been using this for about 4 years, and so have classes at the Univ of Utah and (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Perhaps the best answer is to have the sensor tell you itself. You do this with "tagging memory" associated with each sensor and actuator. This is similar to IEEE1451, the smart sensor spec. We have developed and are using such a scheme on (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I would work with Brian Bagnall and Jeurgen Stuber on the port of Lejos to NXT, doing beta testing and documentation. Personal reason : I'll teach an introductory course in robotics with Java at Berkeley in the fall. My dream is to use NXT (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) John, Seeing that GPS accuracy is on the order of several yards (optimistically speaking) what LEGO robot wouuld you build that could make good use of GPS, and how would it use GPS? Cheers S (20 years ago, 18-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) You could try (URL) but the site seems buggy right now- I get intermittent errors when looking at different pages, including search and 'add to cart'. Also, based on your email address, it looks like you're not in the US, to find a dealer in (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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