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The Art of LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT-G Programming
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The Art of LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT-G Programming

by Terry Griffin
August 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
288 pages
13h 21m
English
No Starch Press
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software, firmware, and hardware

Your program is one of three components that work together to control your robot. The program you create is called software, which is a set of instructions that a computer can perform. In this case, the computer is the NXT Intelligent Brick. The soft part of the word software comes from our ability to make changes easily. This is what gives us the power to use the NXT, three motors, and four sensors to create an endless variety of programs.

The program that runs directly on the NXT Intelligent Brick is firmware, which is a program that runs on a device (like the NXT) that is not changed often and that is effectively part of the device. Firmware is the program that makes the sound when you turn on the NXT, controls ...

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