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Re: Ultrasonic sensor interactions
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Date: 
Sun, 21 May 2006 18:15:49 GMT
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Hello Brian,

   Specificly, I can not find a way to turn off the US sensor from the
LEGO-provided SW environment. There may very well be some functionality at a
lower level I don't have access to (at the moment), or LEGO themselves may do
something about this (after all, for FLL it will be an issue).

That's easy to do in NBC, and not hard with NXT-G: to shut off the US sensor,
just "use" another sensor type on the same port. Here is a sample program that
switches the US sensor on/off with NXT enter button.
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Philo/Misc/test_stop_usd.png


If the sensor actually pings 10 times a second...

   I've not been able to exactly measure how fast the US sensor pings, but from
simply (trying!) to count the barely audiable pings it seems around 10/second.
But another interesting fact comes up when I do that - I can hear variation in
the ping rate.

At low level sample rate can be changed - and even a single shot mode is
available - but presently NXT-G doesn't give access to these features

Philo



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Ultrasonic sensor interactions
 
(...) I'm not positive of that. If the US sensor is plugged in to a powered NXT, I can detect a clicking from it - I presume it's on. Regardless of what sensor I define the port as, this clicking continues. This is what I was basing my "can't turn (...) (19 years ago, 21-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: Ultrasonic sensor interactions
 
(...) ; us_off.nbc ; ---...--- variable declarations ---...--- dseg segment ;------- definitions ------- TCommLSWrite struct Result sbyte Port byte Buffer byte[] ReturnLen byte TCommLSWrite ends ;------- declarations ------- thePort byte 0 // port 1 (...) (19 years ago, 22-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: Ultrasonic sensor interactions
 
(...) I was the one that mentioned that I couldn't find a way from the SW I have to turn the US sensor off. That said, I don't think it's time yet to worry about intractable problems: A hundred of us or so have been playing with this stuff for a (...) (19 years ago, 21-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)

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