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Subject: 
Re: NBC beta news
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Sat, 16 Sep 2006 04:16:27 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, John Hansen wrote:
> I've just uploaded a new NBC beta (b8).
> There are now a few standard macros for motor control in NXTDefs.h (OnFwd,
> OnRev, Off, and Coast as well as arrays for controlling more than one motor


Thanks for your continued work on this John.

One question: Even after invoking the Coast() macro, there's still some
resistance when manually turning the motor output by hand.  Is this unavoidable
due to the gearing, or is there a way to lessen the friction (ala RCX rotation
sensor).

Thanks,
=Hari=



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  Re: NBC beta news
 
Hello Hari, (...) There is a lot of down-gearing in NXT motors ((URL) so you have to overcome a lot of friction to rotate its output. That's why the old RCX rotation sensor still has some uses... Philo (20 years ago, 17-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)

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  NBC beta news
 
I've just uploaded a new NBC beta (b8). The sourcecode and Mac OSX and Linux builds will be up later today. This beta has some cool new features. Unused variable declarations and unused threads/subroutines are removed before generating the (...) (20 years ago, 13-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)

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