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Re: Why NQC over Robolab?
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 9 Dec 2004 21:52:31 GMT
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> > This is a "free" way to get the full version Robolab but it requires you own
> > the student edition of LabVIEW....
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> Here's a link to the "Robolab for LavVIEW" that Tom was talking about:
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> http://www.ceeo.tufts.edu/robolabatceeo/college/robolabforlabview/RLforLabview2521.zip
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Oops. Thanks for the correct link, John.
> Robolab reportedly has a number of problems with features that don't quite work
> reliably (http://news.lugnet.com/robotics/rcx/robolab/?n=294,
> http://news.lugnet.com/robotics/rcx/robolab/?n=297)
This issue has always plagued Robolab. Features have been added w/o thoroughly
debugging the existing ones. That said, version 2.5.4 is excellent. The event
bugs have been fixed as well as a ton of others. Also, more (not all) of the
underlying code is unlocked. This allows someone w/knowledge of LabVIEW to fix
bugs. Unfortunately, a mechanism does not readily exist to report bugs and
fixes.
> Robolab can actually run programs on the host PC (for the Control Lab
> interface). You can't do that with NQC.
Robolab can also run the RCX and the Scout in direct mode. Direct mode lets you
use the camera and microphone as sensors which opens all sorts of possibilities.
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> It is conceivable that a Control Lab target could be added to NQC which would
> let you compile an NQC program into a JavaScript that would use a COM automation
> object to talk to the Control Lab. I'm mildly interested in investigating such
> a scheme. Alternatively, an IDE like BricxCC could be modified to have a
> separate Control Lab feature of some sort. I'm not sure how many people are
> interested in such a thing.
Seeing as most folks here seem to use text basted languages, I would love to see such a thing. The creativity w/3 inputs and outputs has been astounding. Imagine what would be built given easy access to the control lab's 8 inputs and 8 outputs!
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| (...) Here's a link to the "Robolab for LavVIEW" that Tom was talking about: (URL) is a ~50 MB download. This is version 2.5.2. You can download the patch (4 MB) to 2.5.3 here: (URL) tufts.edu site says that "Robolab for LabVIEW" has only been (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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