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Re: Control Lab & NQC
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Mon, 7 May 2007 19:25:08 GMT
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linmix <linmix@gmail.comAVOIDSPAM>
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Jordan Bradford wrote:
The Control Lab is a serial I/O device. I don't see the benefit of using NQC
with it since it doesn't run programs itself; the computer does. NQC would have
to change in a fundamental way to accommodate it: either compile to bytecodes
for a new "firmware" that runs on the PC and talks to the control lab, or
compile directly to x86 assembly language.

There used to be an ActiveX control at http://troyda.sas.muohio.edu/paper2.html
to run the Control Lab using C or C++. Why not use real C?
Unfortunately the link is dead.  Why not use real C? Because I'm not a
programmer and don't know C. Anything I do know (like NQC) I got from
tutorials specific for LEGO.

linmix



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  Re: Control Lab & NQC
 
(...) linmix, if you can program in NQC, you can use C. It's pretty much the same language. You'll just have to learn how to use the serial port, it's not that hard. Get a book on C programming from your local library or bookstore. Get a little (...) (17 years ago, 7-May-07, to lugnet.robotics)

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(...) The Control Lab is a serial I/O device. I don't see the benefit of using NQC with it since it doesn't run programs itself; the computer does. NQC would have to change in a fundamental way to accommodate it: either compile to bytecodes for a (...) (17 years ago, 7-May-07, to lugnet.robotics)

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