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Hand crank it alone should be find. As a matter of fact, that's how we demonstrate to kids a generator. However, just to be on the safe side, I would recommend you not to hand crank it when it is hooked onto to the power source, especially when it (...) (17 years ago, 28-May-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Moving NXT motors by hand
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Thanks! (17 years ago, 28-May-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) John, there are a lot of people using the NXT motors this way, just to get the feedback from the built-in rotation sensors. The best example would be the MDPers who built one joystick with a NXT kit to control a moving vehicle made with (...) (17 years ago, 28-May-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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Hi John, I would not think so, as the NXT's own construction guide has a pick and place (blue ball, red ball) robot, that has hand cranks to move it into position. Danny (...) (17 years ago, 28-May-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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Hi: Sometimes my son and I move the NXT motors by hand, for instance, by attaching something to the holes in the orange hubs to act as a crank. We wonder if that's bad for the motors. Does anyone have an opinion? Regards, John and Will (17 years ago, 28-May-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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Hi all, I am trying to get some middle school kids playing a bit with the robosoccer idea. I don't want to frustrate them with the fluctuating IR ball. So, I am planning to find a constant "lighted" ball for them instead, but no luck. Wonder if (...) (17 years ago, 28-May-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Gripper/Register for Light Sensor Experiment
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I want to create a platform for experimenting with the light sensor. At the moment, I'm thinking of cutting off the gray-scale and color bars off the NXT Test Pad that comes from the commercial kit. The strip would then be mounted on some device, (...) (17 years ago, 26-May-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Using NXT Port 4 EIA-485
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(...) Does anybody have an NXC program that demonstrates the use of RS485 communications? (17 years ago, 25-May-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking)
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| | Re: bitwise operators
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(...) ...and if you are talking about NXT-G, there is a bitwise manipulation block, written by Mike Gasperi and Steve Hassenplug, available here: (URL) list of available blocks is here: (URL) (17 years ago, 25-May-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Are you talking about NXC or NBC or some other programming language? The standard NXT firmware does support bitwise logical operators such as and, or, and xor. In both NXC and NBC you can use these operations as you would expect in a C-like (...) (17 years ago, 24-May-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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