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The 0.5 beta release for Windows and for Linux is now on the sourceforge web site. (URL) changes and new features include: - Garbage collector - Execute code from flash - Automatic defrag of file system - Greatly improved Bluetooth support including (...) (16 years ago, 9-Jan-08, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Hi-speed port communication
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I posted a zip to the NXC samples page containing a pair of programs that show how to send a message from one NXT to another over a wire connected between port 4 on both NXTs. (URL) Hansen (16 years ago, 7-Jan-08, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Hi-speed port communication
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(...) Hi all, the physical connection of NXTs via RS485 is just the first half of the solution... Remeber, at 2-wire RS485 you can have one master only and up to 31 slaves. To address each slave, you need to implement a special protocol which (...) (16 years ago, 5-Jan-08, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Hi-speed port communication
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Hi Ross, (...) it should be possible to use RS-485 as a bus, i.e. connect several NXTs with one cable. You need to make the cable yourself, though, and you may need some termination on the ends. Jürgen (16 years ago, 4-Jan-08, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Hi-speed port communication
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(...) Thanks John. I agree that from the electrical point of view, just connecting one port 4 to another port 4 should just work with no hardware other than the cable (for short lengths, like the cables that come with the NXT). For longer cables, a (...) (16 years ago, 5-Jan-08, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Hi-speed port communication
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(...) Two. Input port #4 fills up pretty quick. Should give a nice performance boost over BT though. (16 years ago, 4-Jan-08, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | The Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Inventor's Guide
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I'm having a book signing this month for my new book The Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Inventor's Guide (No Starch Press), and I decided to officially announce the book here on LUGNET and invite everyone who lives in the Round Rock, Texas area to (...) (16 years ago, 4-Jan-08, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.us.tx, FTX) !
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| | Re: Hi-speed port communication
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(...) Cool! I wonder if you could daisy-chain NXTs using this technique, and if so, how many you could connect? ROSCO (16 years ago, 4-Jan-08, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Hi-speed port communication
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I've been getting a number of emails from some people who want to know how to use the hi-speed RS-485 port 4 functionality in the NXT using the standard firmware. With John Barnes' help I now know how to get it to work correctly. Here is a simple (...) (17 years ago, 4-Jan-08, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: designing new NXT parts (propeller and motor) using rapid prototyping
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(...) Indeed, this 180mA limitation is the one of the 4.3V power supply, that feeds the sensors and the motor position encoders. The motors themselves can receive a much higher current, limited by their own thermal protection and by the maximum (...) (17 years ago, 31-Dec-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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