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I posted an analysis of the NXT's Bluetooth communications protocol at (URL) can be used in three ways. If you are designing NXT programs that communicate via Bluetooth, this article will tell you (perhaps with too many details :-) how to exchange (...) (20 years ago, 5-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Studless building techniques
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"Merredith Portsmore" <merredith@legoengineering.com> wrote in message news:J6M3F1.us@lugnet.com... (...) Merredith, Thanks very much for the link. It looks promising. Mark Haye Professional programmer. Closed source. Do not attempt. (20 years ago, 4-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Re: NXT to RCX Communications
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Davis" <brdavis@iusb.edu> To: <lugnet.robotics.nxt...ugnet.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 10:23 PM Subject: Re: NXT to RCX Communications (...) Thanks Brian. I might as well use the time to try and (...) (20 years ago, 5-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: NXT to RCX Communications
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(...) No. The light sensor can have the red LED either on or off - you can't set it to "20%" or something like that, and there's no way to toggle the LED fast enough to mimic or RCX-style IR message. But... You could cetainly have a program (...) (20 years ago, 5-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | NXT to RCX Communications
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Hello everyone: Is it possible for the NXT to send Run Program commands from the NXT to RCX via a light sensor? Here is an example: 1- The NXT Ultrasound sensor detects an object close by, triggers the NXT light sensor to light up at 20 percent (...) (20 years ago, 5-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Annelus
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Hello everyone, I have finally finished a rather large project that has occupied my time for some months now. I started building Annelus when I discovered (URL) Rotundus> and decided to emulate the creation. What I came up with was a month long (...) (20 years ago, 4-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Re: Studless building techniques
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In lugnet.robotics.edu, Merredith Portsmore wrote: <snip> (...) Meredith, Thanks for posting this. It is wonderful first shot at some of these building topics. I am concerned, however, about the Pythagorean triangles on the Stability link. The (...) (20 years ago, 4-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Re: Studless building techniques
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(...) There are some good basics at the LEGO Technic Design School. They've been slowly adding more (URL) Beams & Connectors How LEGO TECHNIC elements work together. Lesson 1: TECHNIC 101 Lesson 2: Stability with LEGO TECHNIC Course: Gears TECHNIC (...) (20 years ago, 4-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Studless building techniques
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I am working with a couple FLL teams, building with the NXT. I am having a little trouble coaching them on studless building techniques, as it is still a bit of a new concept to me as well. I'm sure I've seen presentations or how-to's on the subject (...) (20 years ago, 3-Oct-06, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Re: NXT direct commands
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For better documentation of the various parameters, look in the Executable File Specification.pdf around page 81. Here's the notes I made in ruby-nxt ((URL) # output mode COAST = 0x00 # motor will rotate freely? MOTORON = 0x01 # enables PWM power (...) (20 years ago, 3-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | NXT direct commands
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Hi, i'm programing a Python library for remote controlling the NXT, now i'm working with the "set output state" message and i would like to know what means the diferent values of each parameter: #MOTOR MODES MOTORON = 0x01 BRAKE = 0x02 REGULATED = (...) (20 years ago, 3-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Tacho Limit and Braking
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(...) You can do just about anything with one line of code if you count user subroutine and user macro calls as "one line". The "Rotate" macro in your example expands to four lines of code that sets up and calls a user program subroutine that is (...) (20 years ago, 2-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Tacho Limit and Braking
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(...) This made sense, until I read this... In lugnet.robotics.nxt, John Hansen wrote: (...) I had to go back and re-read this to understand one is talking about the NXT firmware, and the other is talking about NBC. If I read it correctly, it means: (...) (20 years ago, 2-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Help with NXT-G programming.
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(...) That's just... weird. I've never managed to get something like that. The sequence beam seems to be pinned to the lower edge of the Loop structure, so that even if I make the loop wider, I still can't get to the blind end of the sequence beam. (...) (20 years ago, 2-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Tacho Limit and Braking
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(...) This is incorrect. There is no "setout" opcode in RobotC. RobotC uses a proprietary commercial alternate firmware with a completely different set of opcodes and virtual machine functionality than the standard NXT firmware. Unfortunately, the (...) (20 years ago, 2-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Help with NXT-G programming.
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Hello, I got my Mindstorm NXT set a few weeks ago. Have built and programmed all the modells that was in the program that came with the set. And now started to make my own robots with the NXT. The NXT-G program looks great and is easy to understand (...) (20 years ago, 2-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | RE: Tacho Limit and Braking
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If you want to try something a little different, use RobotC to do this. There are several advantages to this: * It can be done with one "setout" opcode. * The RobotC PID algorithm for this type of movement is different than the NXT-G (...) (20 years ago, 2-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Tacho Limit and Braking
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(...) The NXT firmware does not support a single operation which has the motor run to a specific tachometer limit and then brake. The only way to do what you would like to do involves several operations. But you can wrap it all up into a reusable (...) (20 years ago, 2-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Tacho Limit and Braking
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I started playing with NBC, and wanted to run the motor until it hits the tachometer limit, and then brake. I have been unable to make this happend with one setout opcode. Is it possible? Is it possible to make the opcode wait until the tacho limit (...) (20 years ago, 1-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: bluetooth and nxt
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Thanks for your responses! I am pleased that I experienced a surprisingly painless and successful connection between my NXT and the Belkin Bluetooth USB Adapter F8T012 (which I bought today). I'm even happier that I can compile and d/l my programs (...) (20 years ago, 30-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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