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Re: mindstorms NXT
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:56:07 GMT
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I am not very familiar with the NXT platform but as it sounds now could you
possibly plug a USB Flash memory stick into the USB port (or connector) on
the NXT and use it for data storage?

- John


> > Some flash is nice but 64K RAM is just too little.  We can forget about
> > doing
> > voice processing.
> 
> 64K RAM!? That's absolutely ludicrous! The RCX has 32kb entirely of
> programmable memory (if I remember correctly), and that is just alright.
> 64kb is not much space to work in at all in this era!
> 
> Anyway, a dot-matrix display is nice, as is Bluetooth (especially as it
> can communicate between robots), and should be significantly more
> reliable than Infrared (albeit probably more power hungry).
> 
> William.
> 



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  Re: mindstorms NXT
 
(...) Isn't there an inherent problem with this idea? If the NXT is a slave device, it is a power consumer, right? That would imply that if you connected a USB storage device, the device would not get power, since the NXT won't have been designed to (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: mindstorms NXT
 
(...) As we currently understand things, the USB port is a 'slave' port - not a 'master' - so you can plug the NXT into a PC - but you can't plug things like thumb drives into the NXT because that would be plugging a 'slave' USB device into another (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: mindstorms NXT
 
(...) 64K RAM!? That's absolutely ludicrous! The RCX has 32kb entirely of programmable memory (if I remember correctly), and that is just alright. 64kb is not much space to work in at all in this era! Anyway, a dot-matrix display is nice, as is (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)

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