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Re: Mindstorms NXT programming languages
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 13 Jan 2006 18:59:50 GMT
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steve <SJBAKER1@AIRMAIL.spamlessNET>
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Kevin L. Clague wrote:
> What you need to do is to make a dongle for your laptop PC
> with 8G DRAM, a 1 terabyte hard disk, that gives you an infinite
> number of LEGO NXT compatible motor ports and sensor ports.
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> You will probably have to drill a few technic pin holes in the case,
> and maybe glue a few plates on here or there, but from there you can
> build a robot that has the capabilities you desire.
John Barnes wrote:
> Agreed! And if they did come up with a PC in a brick, you'd have to put new
> batteries in it every few minutes :)
Oh *please*. These are a pair of unjustified responses - you
guys both know better.
1) Flash memory doesn't consume power until you read or write it.
Notice how a thumb drive retains data indefinitely without a
battery, how my camera stores two gigabytes of photo's and runs
on one AA and how my son's MP3 player keeps 128MB of music and
plays for days on one AAA. Doing what I believe they should have
done eats no significant extra power consumption.
2) No, of course you can't cram a PC into a NXT - but you most
definitely COULD have crammed in a teeny-tiny $5 flash chip into
the case and given the existing device a VASTLY greater potential.
OK, OK - so this group is populated in part by a bunch of Lego fanatics
who believe their favored company can do no wrong - and you don't want
to hear *ANY* criticism whatever of the shiney new toy - fair enough -
add me to your spam filter and you'll never see one of my posts again.
But if you want to slam me down, at least have the courtesy to do so
with sensible, well thought out and coherent arguments...which
is all I've *ever* posted here myself.
<sigh>
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| (...) Steve, no matter how you look at it, adding that greater potential would have increased the price. Not just the $10 or whateva for the memory, but the extra development time needed to integrate it. Hell they could have just included a (...) (19 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Mindstorms NXT programming languages
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| (...) Steve, Would you say that the above paragraph is a well thought out, coherent argument? Have you ever actually read a post by John or myself where we claim that LEGO can do no wrong? Or are you simply supposing that because we disagree with (...) (19 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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