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Re: How many people signed up for the NXT Developer's Program?
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:53:18 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Dennis Clark wrote:
> In lugnet.robotics, Ross Crawford wrote:
> > 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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> 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?
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> LEGO, what's up with that?
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> DLC
It depends on how rich the environment. If they are only talking specifically
about getting us a crippled language then I would agree, but if NXT is really
going to be engaging then in typical LEGO fashion they might present challenges
and have some education aspects to their stuff.
Maybe the education one simply has more education stuff in it?
It is hard to imagine that LEGO would try to give us Toys-r-Us buyers a crippled
programming environment.
Kev
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