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Subject:	Re: How many people signed up for the NXT Developer's Program?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.robotics
Date:	Wed, 18 Jan 2006 08:32:10 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, dan miller <danbmil99@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I'm also *very* interested in seeing how Bluetooth can be leveraged to > connect up to laptops and desktop systems, as well as multiple NXT's. > Ideally, there would be a networked development environment that allows you > to move code around between the NXT's and other machines, and facilitates > task sharing and partitioning. I can imagine something like the Aibo soccer > league being possible, where multiple 'bots share information to achieve > coordinated behavior. Interesting that nobody picked up on this from the LEGO site: http://www.lego.com/eng/service/faqs.asp?section=ConsumerService-FAQ-Products&catid=8F964960-8346-423B-86D8-D20039B33907&faqid=17344#17344 "Exclusive to the MINDSTORMS Education NXT software, Bluetooth also enables the computer to communicate to several NXT devices at the same time." This tends to imply that the retail software *won't* have this capability, which I would certainly find disappointing. I have also received confirmation from one of our local LEGO Educational suppliers: "Yes, the Educational software will have more features than the retail version.", however no detailed information on what extra features it will have. ROSCO

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		Re: How many people signed up for the NXT Developer's Program?
--- Ross Crawford <ross.{mylastname}@gmail.com> wrote: <SNIP> (...) It may ship with more features, but I'm betting that AFOLs have it figured out before the NXT sets are on backorder ... around Aug 20th or so. (18 years ago, 18-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)

		Re: How many people signed up for the NXT Developer's Program?
Hi Ross, (...) I'm sure third-party environments won't have this limitation. More interesting is whether a NXT Brick can be a Bluetooth master, so that NXTs can talk with each other without a host, form networks and swarm all over the place :-) (...) (18 years ago, 18-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)

		Re: How many people signed up for the NXT Developer's Program?
(...) Well, THAT sure stinks. What's the deal on that? Have we hobbyists become second class LEGO citizens to the educational market? Why even bother to have two different release trails? LEGO, what's up with that? DLC (18 years ago, 18-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)

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		Re: How many people signed up for the NXT Developer's Program?
(...) Good question... My understanding is that something like LabView, which has been used by FLL and others for some time now, is being shipped with NXT. If there are other choices you can talk about, please do! I'm also very interested in (...) (18 years ago, 18-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)

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