LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Announced

[mightor]

Read all about it!

http://botbench.com/blog/2013/01/07/leg ... announced/

It's exploding all over the Net

= Xander

[mattallen37]

Awesome times a million!!! I can hardly wait to get one!

[manilow]

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/7/384522 ... os#3912081

looks like, that I will rethink, upgrading the controller of my recent NXT. Better selling one of them now, and waiting for the new sd-card slot )

[creator1]

http://ces.cnet.com/2300-34435_1-10015228-8.html

more photos here.

[jwiger]

HAHA, sweet! I knew this was coming when the RCX started going on clearance.

[schodet]

This is really great news, was it anticipated? It is a total surprise for me.

I would have bet for a large tactile screen, but it does not appear to be the case.

Can't wait to try it!

[mightor]

It's a very nice platform, very hackable It runs Linux, so you can pretty much make it do whatever you'd like.

= Xander

[tabbycatrobots]

Regarding the new EV3, I read it has an ARM9 processor. How does this compare in program
execution speed to the current NXT? E.G., can it run 4 tasks, monitoring sensors, at the speed
as the current NXT runs 2, i.e. monitoring 4 sensors at the same frequency as the NXT running
NXC, monitors 2? Thanks for any ideas.

Howard

[sparramc]

It's a 'Raspberry Pi' that I can directly plug my LEGO Mindstorms NXT Sensors and add-on in too.

This time it appears LEGO has been thinking things through!

• Stronger and faster ARM9 robotic processor
• Embedded 16MB FLASH memory
• 64 MB RAM plus SD expansion slot
• LINUX operating system, released under open source
• USB 2.0 interface allows for WiFi connectivity
• 4 input ports: Connect up to 4 sensors at the same time, including your NXT sensors
• 4 output ports: Now you can power up to 4 motors (Either Large, Medium or NXT)
• Up to four intelligent bricks to be connected together
• Bluetooth ® v2.1
• iOS and Android compatible

And the new LEGO Mindstorms ‘EV3′ runs LINUX.. Yipee!!

Beware all 'Windows Addicts', you will soon see a proper O/S in action.

[mightor]

Regarding the new EV3, I read it has an ARM9 processor. How does this compare in program
execution speed to the current NXT? E.G., can it run 4 tasks, monitoring sensors, at the speed
as the current NXT runs 2, i.e. monitoring 4 sensors at the same frequency as the NXT running
NXC, monitors 2? Thanks for any ideas.

Program execution is much, much faster than the NXT, I can't give you any hard figures, though. I am sure more concrete data will appear in due time

= Xander