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(...) What I need to do compute the average position of a number of items across the length of the teeter-totter (!). If, on average, they are in the middle, then there is no rotation and I should get zero. If there are more on the left than the (...) (18 years ago, 21-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Thanks for the technical details, Claude. It's going to take me some time to get through this! Rafe (18 years ago, 21-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Hi Tommy, This is a good idea; I'll try the ultrasonic sensor to see what it can do. Thanks! (18 years ago, 21-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) I made a sequence of stacked 1x2 plates, running from black to red, through green dark grey, light grey, tan, white, yellow, and orange on the way there. My nxt gave me reflected light values running from about 12 to about 52. The nine steps (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Well, all my LEGO is tmeporarily put away for a three-year-old's birthday party, but this morning I finally got a Rock Crawler working... and it immediately stalled out in a pile of NXT kit spare parts :-( Sigh. At least it easily drives over (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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(...) Well... there's two things here, and Steve solution actually addresses them both. Do you actually need a continual series of states, and the "weight" of the thing on the end of the beam, or just know if something *is* on the end of the beam? (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) In the document (URL) find a paper-disk with grey gradient. The document was part of my presentation at the 2005 Annual Robolab Conference in Austin/TX. There was a second part (URL) don't remember, if those documents ever have been available (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) I am not really an NXT guru, but seems the best way would be to simply measure the distance and calculate the angle. Tommy Armstrong (18 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) I am not rally an NXT guru, but seems the best way would be to simply measure the distance and calculate the angle. Tommy Armstrong (18 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Don't mess with colors. Just use a gradient. You'll have a mostly linear set of values. With my black & white studs, there are also several shades of gray in between (like a little black & mostly white...) (...) no. :) Steve (18 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) "It's foolproof!" (...) This sounds like a good idea. I'm thinking I'm going to have to work out a sequence of more than just two shades, but that's what weekends are for, right? So, if I could make of sequence of colors that have increasing (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Easy. A light sensor. Point the sensor at a disk that's shaded from white to black. I've used that to detect the distance a robot is from a wall (wall following), using just a black & a white dot (1x1) which are moved in front of the sensor. (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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Hi all, I am working on a "project" where I want to measure some reasonably small rotations, things on the order of +/- 10 degrees or less. Just to make it hard, the force acting on the thing being rotated is small, like, completely hypothetically, (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Very cool Steve... I can also atest the turn radius will stink since I did the same mod to the red tow truck set last year. You said you are using old style light sensors...Interfacing them to the NXT with the converter cables I assume? B (18 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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(...) Nothing, it restarts back to blank screen, samba clicking mode. (...) Same thing. I also tried pulling the batteries for a few seconds. Telling USB Probe to refresh. 100 different combinations of resetting with and without usb plugged in, (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Tony, thanks for the work so far. What happens if, after the firmware is loaded you do any of the following: 1. Reset the NXT (press reset for less than 1 second) 2. Unplug the USB cable, wait 5 seconds, and plug it back in again (...) Here's (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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Here are my notes on what I've been able to accomplish so far in OSX on my MacBookPro. Loading pbLua firmware on nxt running standard firmware: 1. plugin usb 2. rename nxt-lua.bin to nxt-lua.rfw 3. open NXT-G, goto Tools -> Update NXT Firmware. (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Uh, Dave. Aren't you an american? Last time I checked, Canada was on the top of the north American continent :^P Kevin (18 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Ralph, I can wait for API-docs 8-) In the meantime I try to find out how USB-communication (with libusb and terminalemulation) can work on OSX (10.4.x) and Linux. Is the NXT acting like an USB-Modem (asynchronous communication) What are the (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) I think pbLua is actually running. The problem is that the signon screen does not get displayed until the USB connection is made. Which is why I need to find out how USB enumeration happens on a Mac. The pbLua firmware makes the NXT look like (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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