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| (...) Maybe we are at cross purposes here. You may be right, that for many hobbyists, Java is too advanced and complex, and since their needs are simpler, C is more than enough. Ease of use and low cost is probably more important than computing (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Dan (...) structures (...) youngsters for (...) You almost had me convinced there for a moment. 4GLs are wonderful for quick "I wonder if this will work" programs. And that's exactly what most of the robot we build are. But such languages require a (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Future Mindstorm Releases?
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| Rumors say, danger exists, LEGO could take the robotic products, like the RIS, out of their production line. Indicated by no successor to RIS 2.0 is in sight. But i think the Mindstorm System is perfect, why do you need a successor? To give more (...) (21 years ago, 31-Aug-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Mindstorms NXT programming languages
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| What you say below is entirely true, up to a point. Note that most Lego stuff (and this is true outside Lego -- it applies to most controller code I've seen for robotics) is now using bytecode interpreters. The memory advantages far outweigh the CPU (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) host (...) I don't think that "USB on the go" would do the job. That's for connecting two slaves and it's very limiting as to what the two slaves can do to each other - it looks to me as though only bulk transfer is available. There are lots (...) (20 years ago, 12-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I'm not up to speed on bluetooth technology, but I got to thinking about a possibility of something similar to Vision Command using Bluetooth. Can a computer with bluetooth talk to more than one device at once? The idea is to have a wireless (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) I do not think that would really not work very well for additional sensor ideas and the like. Although for a camera I would be a great deal more likely to use a phone, and or PDA, connecting a mouse (or trackball) as a sensor would be cool - (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| My 2c based on some experience with high-level robotics programming (vision, navigation & mapping, etc): While it is concievable that you could write some sophisticated mapping and analytic software on this platform, it will require deep low-level (...) (20 years ago, 8-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| On another list, we've spent some time researching differential GPS. Turns out it's not as simple as having two GPS units compare notes. You have to know which satellites you are talking to, and that's complicated. They tend to switch on and off (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Mindstorm pong player
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| Just found this video: (URL) a RCX robot using vision command (or a derrivative) to play pong on a real screen! -Rob A> (20 years ago, 8-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Rob- Bluetooth can talk to many devices (although only one at any given instant). If you were going to control your system from your PC, there's no reason to send the data through the NXT to the PC -- might as well send it directly to the PC. (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: mindstorms NXT and memory
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| Hi Steve, (...) Not so sure about that. I would try to use the bluetooth link and let my computer do the video, audio or mapping work. I did that kind of thing with the RCX and the IR connection and it was a nightmare sometimes, it only worked (...) (20 years ago, 8-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Competitive MINDSTORMS: Take the robotic sumo survey!
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| Hello all, When I made my announcement for my book, I failed to mention the survey I have created! On the front page of the competitive MINDSTORMS web site is a survey, which asks, "How much do YOU know about LEGO MINDSTORMS robotic sumo?" I've been (...) (21 years ago, 20-Aug-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Design
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| (...) I don't see any problem with programming an agenda, or an attention span. Are you saying these are intrinsically hard things to do with a computer? ... Yes, I'm saying that (...) I'll go with that. A dog in a human family grows up with dog (...) (20 years ago, 5-Dec-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Peter, Carrying on from my last post, you are right, AI research has done little despite its claims and researchers. The mighty cockroach still defeats the AI world. I don't think that is reason to despair, but personally, I look at it as a reason (...) (20 years ago, 3-Dec-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Bruce (...) getting (...) Tee hee! I seem to have stirred things up a little :-) (...) These are extremely artificial environments. The problems are far easier to solve than the "getting stuck behind the sofa" problem. (Ask any AI researcher "how (...) (20 years ago, 3-Dec-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) In three years in the CS department of the Univ of Utah, my students were able to do much more than this using Lego mechanicals and JCX prototype hardware - autonomous checker and soccer playing bots, with some pretty advanced machine vision (...) (20 years ago, 1-Dec-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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