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Re: NXT to NXT communication?
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Thu, 11 May 2006 22:21:23 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, John Hansen wrote:
> In lugnet.robotics, Ross Crawford wrote:
> > In lugnet.robotics, David Hurley wrote:
> > > 
> > > Did you say SDK??  Please elaborate on this...
> > 
> > http://mindstorms.lego.com/press/2057/Open%20Source%20Announcement.aspx
> > 
> > ROSCO
> 
> Hmmm...  Speaking of SDK, based on a preliminary version of the Hardware SDK
> documentation the NXT is not capable of being both a master and a slave at the
> same time so a network of NXTs is limited to one master and three slaves and
> that's it.  No circular or triangular networks.  No additional levels of
> hierarchy.
> 
> "The NXT is not able to functioning as both a master and a slave device at the
> same time, because this could cause problems in relation to loosing data between
> the NXT devices. Therefore this functionality have been disables within the
> standard firmware."

Sounds like it's a firmware block though, so hopefully it can be overcome with
"NxtOS" or whatever in future.

ROSCO



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  Re: NXT to NXT communication?
 
(...) Hmmm... Speaking of SDK, based on a preliminary version of the Hardware SDK documentation the NXT is not capable of being both a master and a slave at the same time so a network of NXTs is limited to one master and three slaves and that's it. (...) (20 years ago, 11-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)

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