Out of the box, the Mindstorms software isn't all that great -- it runs a custom bytecode format that only allows very limited computation and data storage. But the processor itself isn't bad; it's a 48MHz ARM with 64KB of RAM and 256KB of flash, which is pretty respectable (although not at the PocketPC level, true). Now that the firmware source code available, it should be possible to write much more powerful software in C or assembler.
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David @ Dec 13th 2006 12:28PM
Out of the box, the Mindstorms software isn't all that great -- it runs a custom bytecode format that only allows very limited computation and data storage. But the processor itself isn't bad; it's a 48MHz ARM with 64KB of RAM and 256KB of flash, which is pretty respectable (although not at the PocketPC level, true). Now that the firmware source code available, it should be possible to write much more powerful software in C or assembler.