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| Bruce I guess we're going to have to differ on this one. We're talking about completely different classes of robots. This is a Lego discussion group and the vast majority of people who post here use RIS or NXT (soon) or computers of equivalent (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Now this is funny. Are you suggesting (A) JB doesn't know much about hardware or (B) JB doesn't know about LEGO's development process? If you select (A) or (B), you should rethink your answer. On Fri, January 13, 2006 1:23 pm, steve wrote: (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Yes! Easily. I want to load images from a camera and process them in realtime. To do that, I'd like to take a pre-existing image processing library and compile it for the NXT. That could EASILY consume all 256Kb of flash - and the image itself (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) EXACTLY. And my three-month-old cell phone has 4M of memory (which is needs because it has a camera in it), but my not-born-yet NXT will have 256k+64k. Over eight years, most devices have increased in memory capacity by a factor of maybe 100 (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Indeed, see this image, also clearly showing motor connectors : (URL) (from the article now available here (URL)) (...) An USB On The Go (host+slave) chip is not so expansive. But a host software stack is much more complex, and would expose (...) (20 years ago, 6-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| (...) That's because most people have a reasonable 'feel' for what will fit into the RCX and won't even attempt to fit in something that they can tell just by looking won't come close to fitting. I *KNOW* without looking that I can't do image (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) The size of the flash on the NXT is ridiculously small compared to almost any other consumer-grade embedded systems. Look at cheap digital cameras, PDA's, handheld game systems, thumb drives, MP3 players and cell phones. Name one of them with (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I finally got my Mars Expansion Pack working with my Pinnacle Video Capture Card, type DC10 Plus. I can switch between the tiny black and white camera that fits on a robot much better, viewed through the card, and the USB QuickCam Pro golf ball (...) (26 years ago, 16-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| (...) Well, the press-kit renderings show the motors have sockets. The only shot I could find of the back of a sensor is an un-connected touch(?) sensor on the Tribot. It's pointed toward the floor, underneath another touch sensor mounted below the (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Or just use the afore mentioned wireless G camera and the PC to provide similar but more flexible functions. Just because there is a PC in the loop doesn't mean it needs to do the control. The robot can be autonomous. Just consider the PC a (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) I'd say: Why bother? Connect whatever device you need to the PC, and have it talk to the NXT either via Bluetooth or USB. OK, you'll need a Software on the host PC, but for some peripherals, the NXT will just not do, regardless of wether you (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) (URL) Huge image! Judging by that picture and others, a motor is about half the size of the NXT brick (which is claimed to be about the size of the RCX). Who knows about torque and all. I am guessing the characteristics are about the same as (...) (20 years ago, 7-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| Let's try this again. This Thursday (July 22nd) a couple of my robots are going to appear on G4TechTV's The Screen Savers. I built two robots that can play Hasbro's Connect Four against a person, or each other. The first robot, Full Contact, was (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| I take it you are thinking about using the CMUCam or some similar system with some level of intelligence on board the camera processor. After all -you are really not going to be able to shift the amount of data required to process on board the RCX, (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Another story like that - relating to neural networks - is of a busy Japanese subway system where they wanted to prevent overcrowding of platforms at the stations. The story goes that they planned to hook up a camera with a computer observing (...) (20 years ago, 8-Dec-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Agreed. ... (...) One thing that game worlds give you that is very tricky in real-world situations is, the breakdown of the environment into separable objects. Game code starts with a bunch of objects (floor, walls, tables, (...) (20 years ago, 4-Dec-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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