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Re: More Speed? Re: Mindstorms 3.0 Wish List
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 5 Nov 2003 16:20:02 GMT
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> This could be addressed on the existing hardware with a better programming
> environment.
Are you sure? How many square inches are there in a 1600 square foot house? I
don't think the resulting map array will fit in 32k memory.
JB
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| (...) There are 230,400 square inches in a 1,600 sq-ft house. But you are assuming that you cannot somehow compress the information that you are trying to store. How many chair legs are in your house? Store the location and size of every obstruction (...) (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: More Speed? Re: Mindstorms 3.0 Wish List
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| (...) Two words... "sparse array" The cpu in the RCX is plenty fast enough to handle the proccessing overhead incurred in accessing such an array. To work out how much space in such an array your house would require, add the perimeters measured in (...) (21 years ago, 6-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) This could be addressed on the existing hardware with a better programming environment. What I have in mind is a new NQC compiler that generates a firmware file instead of a bytecode file. So you would code in NQC (or something like it) and (...) (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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