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Re: Compass sensor with NXC
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Date: 
Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:49:10 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics.nxt, Karen Lepper wrote:
Hello,

I coach a Robofest high school team, and we're using two NXT robots for the
current challenge, programmed with NXC.

We've been having a problem using the Compass sensor with NXC.  If I use the
view function on the brick (selecting Ultrsonic sensor cm), it registers
direction just fine (from 1 to 179, and then ???).

But when we try to use the compass sensor in NXC,we get odd results (numbers
into the high hundreds


Which compass sensor are you using, the HiTechnic one or the Mindsensors one?
Are you using a low level API function to read its value or are you using one of
the newer API functions specific to the compass sensor?

Can you email me your program and give me a bit more detail about which type of
compass you have?

John Hansen



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  Re: Compass sensor with NXC
 
(...) Hi John, We're using the HiTechnic sensor. I've contacted you directly with a copy of the program, and here it is if anyone else has an idea for us: task main() { SetSensorLowspeed(IN_2); int dir; ClearScreen (); TextOut (32, 48, "Heading:"); (...) (17 years ago, 28-Feb-08, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)

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  Compass sensor with NXC
 
Hello, I coach a Robofest high school team, and we're using two NXT robots for the current challenge, programmed with NXC. We've been having a problem using the Compass sensor with NXC. If I use the view function on the brick (selecting Ultrsonic (...) (17 years ago, 28-Feb-08, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)

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