 | | Re: NXT Robot Swarm at BrickFest -- featuring Bluetooth
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It's good that people are interested! With the RCX couldn't you just have a robot broadcast a message to anything that could see the IR signal and was waiting for specific messages to arrive? Can a similar thing be done with BT? Would we be better (...) (18 years ago, 11-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
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| | Re: Spike Building Guide Typo
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(...) The same three girls got confused by the programming instructions for Spike "Reactions". They missed the proper placement of the second switch block within the primary switch block within the loop block in frame 8. Confused? So was I. They saw (...) (18 years ago, 11-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | New Sensors and NI Week
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You may be interested in reading my recent "trip report" from attendance at National Instruments annual sales conference ("NI Week"). It's posted on (URL) highlights of this blog entry include: 1. A first look at the newly announced "Build a Block" (...) (18 years ago, 11-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: NXT Robot Swarm at BrickFest -- featuring Bluetooth
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(...) The problem (I think; somebody want to prove me wrong?) is that the "master" NXT can send messages to at most three "slave" NXTs, but the "slaves" can not then act as BT masters to still more units. In other words, it seems very very easy to (...) (18 years ago, 11-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
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| | Re: NXT Robot Swarm at BrickFest -- featuring Bluetooth
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The spec says that at most three other Bluetooth units may be connected to each NXT unit for any given program, but with proper setup one unit could act as a message-passing server for all the others in a swarm, or a simple broadcast relay protocol (...) (18 years ago, 11-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
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