Lpc2000

According to an article on page 67 of the April 2006 SERVO magazine,
LEGO NXT is an ARM7.

This is going to make a lot of programmers very happy!  Preorders
shipping July 1.  See http://tinyurl.com/qaqyl  It should be an
interesting summer...

Richard

...but only if you can reprogram the kit in native code (like the
H8-based brick).  I suspect that Lego won't close the design and will
allow replacement firmware.

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Paul Curtis, Rowley Associates Ltd   http://www.rowley.co.uk 
CrossWorks for ARM, MSP430, AVR, MAXQ, and now Cortex-M3 processors

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> According to an article on page 67 of the April 2006 SERVO 
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Paul Curtis wrote:
> ...but only if you can reprogram the kit in native code (like the
> H8-based brick).  I suspect that Lego won't close the design and will
> allow replacement firmware.

And I guess it's not too much of a secret that I was one of
the original 4 Mindstorms User Panel members. Feb 2006 Wired.

I'll be able to talk more about it after May 1, 2006.

Ralph

Hi Ralph, 

> Paul Curtis wrote:
> > ...but only if you can reprogram the kit in native code (like the 
> > H8-based brick).  I suspect that Lego won't close the 
> design and will 
> > allow replacement firmware.
> 
> And I guess it's not too much of a secret that I was one of 
> the original 4 Mindstorms User Panel members. Feb 2006 Wired.
> 
> I'll be able to talk more about it after May 1, 2006.

Well, I entered for the 100-off "let's evaluate NXT" kits, and would
have been perfectly happy in producing a plug-in package for CrossWorks
for ARM to allow development of apps for NXT, probably FOC.
Unfortunately, I wasn't selected.  :-(  Oh well.  I still have two
bricks and all the Mindstorms accessories which I let my sons play with.
I believe, at last count, we had spent over £5,000 on Lego between the
five of us in the family that play with it, so the next house (which
I've just purchased) is having an extension built with a room
specifically set aside for Lego.

Rgds,

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Paul Curtis, Rowley Associates Ltd   http://www.rowley.co.uk 
CrossWorks for ARM, MSP430, AVR, MAXQ, and now Cortex-M3 processors