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Re: Why NQC over Robolab?
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 13 Dec 2004 04:57:56 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, John Hansen wrote:
> In lugnet.robotics, Thomas Johnson wrote:
> > In lugnet.robotics, John Hansen wrote:
> > > If the latter then NQC already supports the MicroScout and the Code Pilot for
> > > both the Scout and the Spybot targets (and via custom NQC headers files the
> > > RCX).
> >
> > It is the latter.
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> Then I would like to announce that NQC supports the MicroScout and CodePilot
> bricks. It has had this support for several years.
I suspected as much.
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> > > Does Robolab support the Spybot? If not, why not?
> >
> > I've never messed w/a spybot so I can't give a definitive answer but if the
> > spybot is controlled via VLL, then it should be supported.
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> The Spybot is a fully programmable lego brick like the RCX and Scout. Like the
> Scout its firmware is in ROM. It has about 4K available for user programs (only
> one program slot). It doesn't have a datalog, but it has a large EEPROM area
> for storing data. It has very powerful IR features for communicating with other
> Spybots (as well as Scout and RCX bricks). It has VLL output capability. It is
> the least expensive programmable brick available, but it is also the least
> flexible with respect to its outputs and inputs (sensors and motors are all
> built-in).
Well crud. Now I'm going to have to go out and get one of those things.
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> To say that Robolab has support for the Spybot would require that a user could
> write a program in Robolab targeted for the Spybot, with blocks that
> specifically represented its capabilities for finding and tracking the position
> of other Spybots, defining and using LED animations, defining and using sound
> effects, EEPROM reading/writing, etc...
Suffice to say, Robolab does not currently support the Spybot. Sounds like an
interesting project though....
Tom
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| (...) Then I would like to announce that NQC supports the MicroScout and CodePilot bricks. It has had this support for several years. (...) The Spybot is a fully programmable lego brick like the RCX and Scout. Like the Scout its firmware is in ROM. (...) (20 years ago, 12-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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