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Re: FW: Something else is needed, I think...
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 4 May 1999 20:41:21 GMT
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Paul Speed <pspeed@STOPSPAMaugustschell.com>
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Laurentino Martins wrote:
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> What about instead of creating a full featured firmware that will
> never be good enough for *everything* we want to do, we create a
> dynamic firmware downloader that we could specify what we would
> want to download?
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> I could say for instants that for a project I would need all the
> standard firmware, plus floating point support and a math module
> with functions like sin() cos(), etc... or even a communications
> module that would enable an RCX to communicate with other RCX?
> Of course I would have less memory for my program(s), but on the
> other hand if I know that my program is not going to use certain
> modules I could choose simply to never download them and save
> memory. A downloaded program would interact with the downloaded
> firmware as if it was only a block, and would never miss the non
> downloaded modules because it will never call functions from them.
> And if the module file structure could be made available to the
> general public, new modules would appear with specialized tasks
> like (for instants) modules that can convert raw data from non
> standard sensors to more usable values, etc. Better, the firmware
> could dynamically download modules from the PC as soon as they are
> needed by the programs!
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> I think this approach opens new possibilities and retaining the
> best of both worlds. This is what we need! =:-D
>
> What do you think?
Is it just me, or is this starting to sound alot like
LegOS? :)
-Paul (pspeed@progeeks.com)
--
Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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