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Re: Robolab Data Acquisition
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Thu, 17 Mar 2005 02:07:48 GMT
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Steve Baker <sjbaker1@/nomorespam/airmail.net>
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Dick Swan wrote:
> My objective is to highlight the incredible data acquisition and
> analysis aspects of Robolab. If you're not interested in this
> aspect of Robolab, simply stop reading now.
Yeah - I have no doubt that this tool has value for non-programmers
who need to rapidly stitch together some instruments to perform an
experiment.
But that's not what programming is about.
> If you're a member of this list your Mindstorms orientation is in
> building autonomous Robots. That's not the focus of Robolab.
> Robolab is a tool for teaching science to kids; autonomous robots
> are a fun application but not the primary mission of Robolab.
Exactly.
> Now of course, Robolab is also used for building autonomous
> robots. And this capability is also taught to students. But I
> suspect in general that most of their programs are most likely
> less than 20 graphical icons or 20 lines of NQC code.
...and at that level of complexity, 20 icons is manageable - but
it's hard to find real applications that are anything close to being
that simple.
The simple 'TuxKart' game that my son and I wrote together contains
7,000 lines of C++ code - it's about as simple as a 3D graphic game
could possibly be.
Roomba (a robotic vacuum cleaner - that sold in vast quantities)
contains 30,000 lines of code. A Robolab diagram with 30,000 icons
would be a wonderous thing to behold!
Real world applications are almost never that simple. The 'Furby'
toy (a robot of sorts) is mechanically ingenious (it has just one
motor) - but it contains tens of thousands of lines of code to
bring it to life.
A typical cellphone contains around a million lines of C code.
A flight simulator (such as I build for a living) might contain 20
million lines of C++ code.
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