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Mindstorms USB connection and memory
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 20 Dec 2006 03:29:23 GMT
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Mindstorms NXT experts,
Okay, so I am working with my NXT and it occurs to me that the brick has a USB
connection. USB connections are bidirectional meaning that information can go
both ways.
Skip ahead to me wanting to embed a USB memory key into a LEGO brick like so
many others have done and a thought occurs to me. Maybe a USB key could be used
to store more program on the USB key (thumb drive).
Does anyone know if a program could be stored on a USB Key and then connected to
the NXT brick and the program run from the memory on the USB Key.
Or am I crazy?
Todd
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 | | Re: Mindstorms USB connection and memory
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| (...) Yes, you're crazy. Actually, it's been suggested many times. However, it doesn't quite work that way. With USB, there's a master device, and a slave device. The thumb drive is a slave device. The NXT is a slave device. You can't connect a (...) (18 years ago, 20-Dec-06, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Mindstorms USB connection and memory
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| In article <JAJz0z.6FA@lugnet.com>, Todd Thuma <thumat@gactr.uga.edu> writes (...) Hmm. A USB connection between a host and a slave is not bidirectional. The host end supplies power and control logic which create the signals to manage the data (...) (18 years ago, 20-Dec-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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