Re: Mindstorms USB connection and memory

Ralph Hempel <[email protected]> Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:09:06 GMT
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.lego.robotics
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Message-ID <[email protected]>
> With USB, there's a master device, and a slave device.  The thumb drive 
> is a slave device.  The NXT is a slave device.  You can't connect a 
> thumb drive to an NXT, just like you can't connect two thumb drives 
> together.  A thumb drive could not request data from another drive.  
> And, the NXT could not request data from a thumb drive.

That being said, I did once load my brick up with custom
firmware that made it look like a USB key - with just under
256K (yes K) of storage - not very useful, and probably the most
expensive USB key ever made!


Ralph