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(...) Upgraded, and changed to fresh batteries twice, I sure hope it isn't but is feels very much like a hardware failure to me :( On the other hand I can report that I managed to get a low budget GPS to talk to my NXT. The bad news is that it works (...) (18 years ago, 12-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) OK, that's just... weird. Are you using the straight-off-the-CD software, or have you upgraded with the "no clicking" patch? (18 years ago, 12-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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My precious decided to die one night. When I tried to start it one morning it was totally dead, nothing could revive it. But since it was saturday and I had stuff to do I left it alone. Then several hours later it started to 'click' as described by (...) (18 years ago, 11-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Thanks, Tony, this information is great. I will check it out. Patrick (18 years ago, 11-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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Good luck. I did manage to get ruby-nxt working in windows, but I had to run it through cygwin to be able to compile the serial port module: (...) (18 years ago, 11-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) As I understand it, the lock bits are only touched if SAMBA mode is entered, which is done when the reset button is pressed for more than about three seconds. At that point, the ARM erases the bottom two sectors and installs the SAMBA firmware (...) (18 years ago, 11-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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"Sivan Toledo" <stoledo@tau.ac.il> wrote in message news:J5DMMp.Bs5@lugnet.com... (...) firmware (...) called (...) True, you can't level the firmware - only file systems can be wear leveled. I understand that there has been discussion concerning (...) (18 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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"Tony Buser" <tbuser@gmail.com> wrote in message news:b74cdea06090916...ail.com... (...) That was written for Linux, but hopefully, it will work on Windows as well. Dave (18 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Don't forget that the education market is also a large portion of the Mindstorms market. Lifetime for education is more line ten years?? And depending on environment, these could be heavy use applications. LEGO has also been very generous in (...) (18 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) One probable reason that the NXT does not do any wear leveling is that it executes instructions directly from flash (the instructions in the firmware itself), which is memory mapped. This requires that these instructions are contiguous, which (...) (18 years ago, 10-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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