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Re: New TLC Mindstorms survey
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Sun, 20 Jun 2004 14:15:22 GMT
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Any other ideas here?
Orion

On the software side, don't forget to lobby them to fix the #$@%$!
hyperthreading USB tower driver bug!!!!

I'd also love to see real C/C++ programming support out of the box -- setting up
Cygwin and brickOS is just too hard for most people.

If they MUST release a graphical programming environment, why not use the
standard -- UML -- (or at least a simplified subset), rather than reinventing
the wheel.  See Miro Samek's "Practical Statecharts in C/C++" for a lightweight
implementation (~5K) supporting UML's hierarchical statecharts.

tonyv



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  Re: New TLC Mindstorms survey
 
(...) For most Windows users it is extremely easy to set up Cygwin & brickOS (as well as pbForth and leJOS) using the pre-built installers I created. And who needs a graphical programming environment when you've got BricxCC? :-) John Hansen (URL) (20 years ago, 22-Jun-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
  Re: New TLC Mindstorms survey
 
(...) They should release a graphical programming environment but it should tie together with a real programming language like C, C++ or Java. I would love to see a flow chart on one side of the window with corresponding code on the other. This (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)

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(...) It might be a long shot - but I am gonna ask for more sensor/motor ports and external power in/out lines. I always thought the active sensor thing was over complicated for any custom sensors. Since they pose the "what would you consider (...) (20 years ago, 17-Jun-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)

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