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Re: NXT->PC Communication
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 25 Aug 2006 13:50:40 GMT
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Original-From:
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Geoffrey Schmit <GCSCHMIT@GMAIL.COMstopspam>
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On 24/08/2006 at 3:53 AM, Tac Tacelosky/Smokefree DC <lego-robotics@crynwr.com>
wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out a way from a VB program to interact with the
> NXT, via USB or BlueTooth. I was hoping I could just open a serial COM
> port after a BlueTooth connection was established, and just read the
> message and parse it, but that doesn't seem to work.
>
> I see that Microsoft now has a library for interacting (via the
> Ghost.dll) with the Mindstorm RIS. What I'm looking for is something
> like this, but for NXT.
>
> I've read the documentation for interfacing a program with BlueTooth or
> USB, and both are very low-level documents, I'm hoping someone has
> already wrapped these into a library.
The Driver SDK <http://mindstorms.lego.com/Overview/NXTreme.aspx> provides a C
interface as well as a C++ interface. You could call this C interface from VB
to communicate with the NXT.
geoff
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| (...) Unfortunately, the Fantom driver library does not wrap the Direct Command functionality (i.e., the portion which lets you read sensor values and control motors) in a high level API. You still have to build the buffer and extract values from (...) (18 years ago, 25-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I'm trying to figure out a way from a VB program to interact with the NXT, via USB or BlueTooth. I was hoping I could just open a serial COM port after a BlueTooth connection was established, and just read the message and parse it, but that doesn't (...) (18 years ago, 24-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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