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Re: Hot Mindstorms NXT News from MacWorld
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 11 Jan 2006 19:42:32 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, William R. Ward wrote:
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(This message also appears on my blog:
http://www.brickpile.com/2006/01/11/hot-mindstorms-nxt-news-from-macworld/)
Finally, he confirmed that the NXT units can talk to one another using
Bluetooth (but not using USB, as the NXT’s USB port is “slave only”), and
that they will have a single address space rather than the current RCX design
which segments the memory into five partitions for different programs.
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Bill, thanks for the report. The above is what I think most of us speculated
but now you have confirmed, multiple NXT’s form a piconet!
I suspect from the last comment that perhaps the initial firmware only runs one
program at a time that has access to the entire address space?? Was this true
of the RCX as or could you upload multiple apps and run them concurrently?
I will guess the development paradigm will be to use the stripped down
customized LabView program to graphically design your application, upload it to
the NXT, and run it. The firmware on the NXT is really simple and runs one
application at a time that has access to the whole address space. Since there
might not be a real MMU implemented on the chip, this would make sense in terms
of firmware/OS simplicity.
-aps
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| (This message also appears on my blog: (URL)) At MacWorld I was talking to the LEGO Education (Dacta) guy there and he told me some interesting things about Mindstorms NXT that I hadn’t heard anywhere else. I already knew that the FIRST LEGO League (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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