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Re: How many people signed up for the NXT Developer's Program?
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Wed, 18 Jan 2006 20:49:37 GMT
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On Wed, January 18, 2006 3:28 pm, Mark Bellis wrote:

5) Interface the NXT with earlier RCX devices so people can continue to get the
best out of their earlier products by using the NXT alongside them.

There are things like this that people could actually start on right now.  You know
the RCX uses IR and you know the message format.

You know the NXT has Bluetooth.  The only thing you don't know is the message format.

How much work can be done without that information?  Most of the hardware?

Why wait?

Steve



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  Re: How many people signed up for the NXT Developer's Program?
 
(...) Indeed - I'm not waiting, though I haven't done much work on point 5) yet. I have been considering the circuit blocks in an interface between the new NXT sensor port and a legacy RCX sensor. Of course I can't post anything yet, since that (...) (19 years ago, 18-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)

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(...) As an electronics engineer, my focus would be on circuits and interfaces. I'll leave the software and firmware to software experts! Firstly, for the benefit of the program, I'd reverse engineer the NXT interface (sensor, motor, power) (...) (19 years ago, 18-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)

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