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Re: NXC: turning on the light
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:55:43 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, iTOtto <torsten.otto@mac.com> wrote:
> Howdy,
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> maybe I'm overlooking something very simple, but I can't find a way to use
> the lamp that comes with the NXT when programming it in NXC.
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> Is this plainly not supported?
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> Regards,
> iTOtto
My guess is you can turn it on using one of the powered sensor types such as
SENSOR_TYPE_LIGHT_ACTIVE or SENSOR_TYPE_LOWSPEED_9V. I don't have a lamp to
test this with or any of the cables that are required to connect a lamp to a
sensor port. The retail set doesn't include any of these cables or the lamp
itself.
Let me know if this works or not.
John Hansen
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: NXC: turning on the light
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| Thanks a bunch for the reply! The education set has the lamp, so my students would like to use it now... I'll keep you 'posted' about the results... Regards, Torsten Otto (...) (16 years ago, 15-Apr-08, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: NXC: turning on the light
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| (...) Since the lamp is a rather power hungry device, it is best to drive it with an output port. Use OnFwd(port, pwr) to turn it on (with brightness controlled by pwr parameter), Off(port) to turn it off. Though I have not tested, it should also (...) (16 years ago, 15-Apr-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | NXC: turning on the light
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| Howdy, maybe I'm overlooking something very simple, but I can't find a way to use the lamp that comes with the NXT when programming it in NXC. Is this plainly not supported? Regards, iTOtto (16 years ago, 14-Apr-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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