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Re: NXT and bluetooth enabled phones
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:38:11 GMT
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Kyle McDonald <{kyle.mcdonald@}NoSpam{sun.com}>
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Matthew Ruschmann wrote:
> > "Lund demonstrated, for example, how with his Bluetooth phone, he could direct
> > the movement of one of the robots. Then he showed how the robot was programmed
> > so that when it moved and bumped into something, it would send a signal to his
> > phone directing it to snap a digital photograph."
> 
> 
> Ugh.. she mentions communicating to the NXT with J2ME on your phone.
> Seriously depressing that I might have to learn Java.  That is one
> bandwagon that I have long avoided.
I'm curious... What is it about java that you want to avoid? Is it just
that you perceive it as a band wagon that everyone and their brother is
jumping on to look cool?

I can see that about it. And things like that have made me avoid things
in the past too, so I don't blame you. However once I actually looked
into Java, and started to use it, I wished I had used it sooner.  Anyway
to each his own... I was just curious.

  -Kyle



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(...) My current project involves dealing with mobile devices and understanding their development frameworks. I have found J2ME to be an excellent platform to develop apps but is still not quite complete. The issue is mobile devices have gotten more (...) (21 years ago, 12-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)

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(...) Ugh.. she mentions communicating to the NXT with J2ME on your phone. Seriously depressing that I might have to learn Java. That is one bandwagon that I have long avoided. ---...--- Matthew C. Ruschmann (URL) (21 years ago, 12-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)

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