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Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
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Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:32:37 GMT
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On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:29:34 GMT, Steve Baker <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote:
> Yep - I'm one of those. The kids I've worked with grew up learning C and NQC
> (because they program other things than just Lego robots - and RIS and Robolab
> are useless for anything beyond the narrow confines of Lego). My kids are
> simply unable to compete in FLL - so we don't enter.
Boy I am tired of hearing "Robolab has no real world value"
Robolab is based on National Instruments Labview product...
http://www.ni.com/labview/ which is used globaly by many scientists
and engineers for "real world" solutions...like robotics control, test
and measurement, prototyping, and data aquisition. Anyone who has
familiarity with Robolab would also be very comfortable working with
the base Labview.
Here are two overviews of Robolab and Labview:
http://www.ni.com/company/robolab_labview.htm
http://www.ni.com/company/robolab.htm
I would agree that many software programmers use textual languages,
but I know many industrial engineers who work day in and day out in
graphical development environments, simlar to those in Robolab and
Labview....
Like Grafcet (or SFC, Sequential Functional Charts)
http://www.lurpa.ens-cachan.fr/grafcet.html
Which is implemented as IEC1131-3 by most PLC vendors.
I would even call "basic" Ladder Logic (simple example here
http://xtronics.com/toshiba/Ladder_logic.htm ) a graphical
language....and lord knows that EVERY automation engineer in the word
is familliar with that!
-Rob A>
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