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Subject: 
BASIC for the NXT was Re: R21 - Robot Status
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Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:24:47 GMT
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Rob Antonishen wrote:

>
> P.S. Anyone coming with an NXT "demonstration" t-o-w bot, since they
> are not allowed to compete?
>


I ~would~ BUT......I !HATE! the GUI programing software. (Yes I know it
was designed for kids, and I understand that I am not the target audience)

I have built several NXT bots, that have NO CODE, cause I am just not
young enough to grok GUI software.

I'm waiting for Ralph to surprise us with RH-Basic  or
Hemple-Design-Mostly-Basic-With-Some-Forth (HDMBWSF).  Come on all you
software creators, how about BASIC for the NXT?  This is a list of
people way smarter than me who might be able to do this.


the LEGO SDK team
Bot Code - Marty Balash
Bot-Kit - Andy Bower
Brain Storm - Richard Maynard
Brick Command - Brain Cwikla
Brick Command Center - John Binder
emulegOS - Marcus L. Noga & Marco Beri
Gordon's Brick Programmer - Malcom S. Powell
Java 2 pbForth console - Jonathan Knudsen
LEGO::RCX - John C. Quillan
legOS RCX Code - Dave Madden
lego Sim - Frank Mueller
leJOS - Jose Solorzano
MacNQC - K. Robert Bate
Not Quite C - Dave Baum
On Screen Programming - David R. Van Wagner
pbForth - Ralph Hempel
Perl - Paul Haas
PRO-RCX - Dennis Cousineau
pure Java - Scott Lewis
QBasic, DOS - Peter Hesketh
Robolab - Tufts University
RCX Command Center - Mark Overmars
RCX & Java - Dario Laverde
Scheme - Adam Wick, Kasey Klipsch, & Mitchell Wagner
Tcl RCX - Laurent Demailly
Tcl RCX Bytecode Compiler - Peter Pletcher
John Hansen
Dick Swan
LEGO Mindstorms Internals -Russell Nelson
Mind Control -Eric Brok
Mindstorms RCX Sensor Input -Michael Gasperi
RCX Interrogator -Chris Stanley
RCX Internals -Kekoa Proudfoot
LEGO Mindstorms with Linux Mini-HOWTO -Luis Villa


and MANY MORE...

What do I have to do; have a contest and offer a prize to get BASIC for
the NXT?

hummmmmm, What would be a good "prize" to inspire someone to write a new
BASIC style language for the NXT?


Chris

1. List was shamelessly stolen from several sources.  I have no idea how
incorrect it is; with apologies for errors and omissions.



Message has 5 Replies:
  Re: BASIC for the NXT was Re: R21 - Robot Status
 
(...) Yes, you could call it the rtlToronto nXt-Prize. A prize for the first person to write an IDE and compiler that Chris (and for that matter me, since I would like one) likes. Prizes to include a Supercar and a Sopwith Camel? Oh wait...wrong (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
  Re: BASIC for the NXT was Re: R21 - Robot Status
 
(...) Um, but... isn't that *also* a language developed for kids ;-)? Duck and cover, duck and cover... (...) Dang, that's a nice hit-list of "people both smarter than me and that I am deeply indebted to". It amazing how far and wide the RCX has (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
  Re: BASIC for the NXT was Re: R21 - Robot Status
 
(...) Chris, Have you seen/tried RobotC yet? I have been toying around with it (after trying NBC for oh... 10 minutes then giving up - Assembly is not my forte) and it is much like BriXCC / NQC. C#-based and works quite well. I am in the midst of (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
  Re: BASIC for the NXT was Re: R21 - Robot Status
 
(...) It is an ARM based thing, so if the internals are well known enough, maybe GCC can be made to compile for it as a target. I suppose it would just be targetting the arm, and then finding the right stuff to upload the code. Then comes the (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
  Re: BASIC for the NXT was Re: R21 - Robot Status
 
I think that $25,000 should inspire someone to write a basic compiler that spits out NXT Byte code. You could even get by if the compiler was written based using a non-enterprise version of basic. Lamar A retired system programmer/analyst "Chris (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: R21 - Robot Status
 
(...) c'mon Iain, throw something together... use a pulback motor....anything :) Even I'm starting to cobble one (or two) together. I'm planning on doinf this one just for fun...not putting any huge thought into problem solving :) P.S. Anyone coming (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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