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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 (18 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 (...) (18 years ago, 13-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)

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