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Great timing. I just bought a PICkit2 to play with the other day. Any chance you already have the I2C slave interface for the NXT for the PIC? That way I can only concentrate on the specific code for a custom input/output device. (18 years ago, 30-May-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Ultimate ROBOLAB for PICs
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We added a special programming environment for a series of PICs to the Ultimate ROBOLAB site www.ultimaterobolab.com. To distinguish it from RCX-Ultimate Robolab, we called it PICLab. This is a powerful tool for PIC programming. The result is .asm (...) (18 years ago, 30-May-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: robosoccer ball problem...
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(...) It's not ideal for stock LEGO sensors I think, but it might be good to point out to them that the reason it blinks is to make things *easier*. With a source pulsing near a known frequency, ambient conditions are much easier to cancel out. (...) (18 years ago, 29-May-07, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Re: Moving NXT motors by hand
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(...) Well, if by "more qualified" you mean "have abused their hardware harder than average, yes :-). Since day 1 I've back-driven the NXT motors by hand, including the magic motor demo (not as efficient with the NXT motors, but it does work), using (...) (18 years ago, 29-May-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Well, I don't want to claim to be an expert, but I'll tell you what I've done. I have a couple remotes that I've been using for over a year, and I haven't had problems with them. One not only uses the rotation sensors, but also uses the motors (...) (18 years ago, 29-May-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | RE: Moving NXT motors by hand
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Hand crank it alone should be find. As a matter of fact, that's how we demonstrate to kids a generator. However, just to be on the safe side, I would recommend you not to hand crank it when it is hooked onto to the power source, especially when it (...) (18 years ago, 28-May-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Moving NXT motors by hand
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Thanks! (18 years ago, 28-May-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Moving NXT motors by hand
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(...) John, there are a lot of people using the NXT motors this way, just to get the feedback from the built-in rotation sensors. The best example would be the MDPers who built one joystick with a NXT kit to control a moving vehicle made with (...) (18 years ago, 28-May-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Moving NXT motors by hand
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Hi John, I would not think so, as the NXT's own construction guide has a pick and place (blue ball, red ball) robot, that has hand cranks to move it into position. Danny (...) (18 years ago, 28-May-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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Hi: Sometimes my son and I move the NXT motors by hand, for instance, by attaching something to the holes in the orange hubs to act as a crank. We wonder if that's bad for the motors. Does anyone have an opinion? Regards, John and Will (18 years ago, 28-May-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | RE: robosoccer ball problem...
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Hi all, I am trying to get some middle school kids playing a bit with the robosoccer idea. I don't want to frustrate them with the fluctuating IR ball. So, I am planning to find a constant "lighted" ball for them instead, but no luck. Wonder if (...) (18 years ago, 28-May-07, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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Hi all, I am trying to get some middle school kids playing a bit with the robosoccer idea. I don't want to frustrate them with the fluctuating IR ball. So, I am planning to find a constant "lighted" ball for them instead, but no luck. Wonder if (...) (18 years ago, 28-May-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Gripper/Register for Light Sensor Experiment
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I want to create a platform for experimenting with the light sensor. At the moment, I'm thinking of cutting off the gray-scale and color bars off the NXT Test Pad that comes from the commercial kit. The strip would then be mounted on some device, (...) (18 years ago, 26-May-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Robo Quad - Stage Seven
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(...) Thank you! I just finished adding the pilot to the cockpit. (...) LMAO, no comment other than the line I wrote above. (LOL) (...) Stage 9 coming soon. Completion projected at Stage 10. (URL) The Robo Quad about to get some tail. Eric Sophie (18 years ago, 25-May-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: Using NXT Port 4 EIA-485
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(...) Does anybody have an NXC program that demonstrates the use of RS485 communications? (18 years ago, 25-May-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking)
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| | Re: bitwise operators
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(...) ...and if you are talking about NXT-G, there is a bitwise manipulation block, written by Mike Gasperi and Steve Hassenplug, available here: (URL) list of available blocks is here: (URL) (18 years ago, 25-May-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Robo Quad - Stage Seven
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Cool! Glad to see you're still in there making great robots Eric! Hope that robo-pussy comes alive with much enjoyment and pleasure! Regards, /Tobbe in Sweden (18 years ago, 24-May-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic) !!
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| | Re: bitwise operators
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(...) Are you talking about NXC or NBC or some other programming language? The standard NXT firmware does support bitwise logical operators such as and, or, and xor. In both NXC and NBC you can use these operations as you would expect in a C-like (...) (18 years ago, 24-May-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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I looked thru the doc, it looks like it does not allow bitwise operators like IOR, XOR, AND, etc. Is this correct? Or, I have overlooked something? --thanks Elizabeth (18 years ago, 24-May-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | RE: determine the degree of turning by using ultrasonic sensor
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Ok... I wrap every sequence of motion control with mutex. I created a movement macro which basically just wrap the command(s) around with acquire and release. By the way, would someone tells me how I'll find out how the mutex datatype implemented. (...) (18 years ago, 22-May-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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