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Re: NXT-G using RCX items.
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lugnet.robotics.nxt
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Sun, 15 Oct 2006 13:47:36 GMT
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Glassey" <glassey@ieor.berkeley.edu>
To: <lugnet.robotics.nxt@lugnet.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 12:53 AM
Subject: Re: NXT-G using RCX items.
> In lugnet.robotics.nxt, Brian Davis wrote:
> > I've not tried yet, because I
> > don't have the converter cables to try. I suspect you will need the
> > special
> > NXT-G programming blocks to use the motors (and probably most of the
> > sensors),
> > but maybe LEGO will be able to release a patch of something that could
> > give that
> > ability to the commercial Mindstorms software.
> I have a conveter cable so I finally did some tests with NXT-G and here is
> what I find-- RCX motor runs in both directions, and responds to the
> speed settings. The touch sensor works. The light sensor measures ambient
> light. But the bad news is that it does not generate light when that
> option is selected in the light sensor block. The rotation sensor block
> would not read the RCX rotation sensor. The sensor block does read the
> rotation sensor in raw mode, which is just as hard to use as raw mode in
> the RCX.
> Roger Glassey
Thanks for the infomation Roger. I'm going to order the convertor cables.
John
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