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Re: NXT external storage
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lugnet.robotics.nxt
Date: 
Mon, 9 Apr 2007 10:21:37 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics.nxt, Sivan Toledo wrote:
> In lugnet.robotics.nxt, Christian Mock wrote:
> > Hi,
> > what are you thinking about extending the NXT with an external storage for more
> > sounds or karthographic data ?
> > A simple hardware interface NXT==>I2C==>IOPort==>SD-Card is not the problem,
> 
> It may work, but it will be very slow. The NXT runs the i2c ports at only
> 9600kb/s, so the data will trickle to the NXT very slowly.
> 
> > but how can this supported by operating system (e.g pbLua, NXJ, NXT-G)?
> > Is it enough to add some routines for fetching data fro external SD-Card or
> > is it neccessary to implement a full filesystem driver ?
> 
> I think that the answer is yes.
> 
> > 
> > I've seen such addon for simple AVR-based systems.
> > 
> > Thanks for more ideas
> > Bye
> > Christian

Yes, 9600 bits/s is really slow for storage access.
Is there a known way to increase the clock and transferrate of I2C ?

Christian



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  RE: NXT external storage
 
(...) Yes. RobotC already supports an optional "fast" mode that is five times faster transmission when reading a single byte. For reading multiple bytes from an I2C device, RobotC is about 15 times faster than the NXT-G firmware. There are a couple (...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)

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  Re: NXT external storage
 
(...) It may work, but it will be very slow. The NXT runs the i2c ports at only 9600kb/s, so the data will trickle to the NXT very slowly. (...) I think that the answer is yes. (...) (19 years ago, 8-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)

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