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(...) Whew! I was going to put my question in past tense ("Does this mean that I should have or shouldn't have used the train controller plug ...") but it seemed better to be a fool after doing something not dumb than after doing something dumb! (...) (17 years ago, 30-Nov-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) You should. The NXT battery expects the same wallwart as the train controller and RCX. Philo (17 years ago, 30-Nov-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Brian, So, does this mean that I should or I shouldn't use the train controller plug thingy that I use for the trains and my RCX? Rafe (17 years ago, 30-Nov-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) I'd say a bad idea, since it's supposed to be supplied with 9-12V *AC* (not DC) power. Like the RCX 1.0, it might work under a DC supply... but that's not what it was designed for. (17 years ago, 30-Nov-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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Hi, Can anybody confirm whether recharging a NXT battery block using 9V or 12V DC adapter is a bad or good idea, please? Seems that LEGO published HW schematics for the brick, but not for the battery block... Pavel. (17 years ago, 30-Nov-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Well, I use Linux so I completely skipped the part about NXT-G in the docs and I missed the reference to the light sensor. Anyway, that is sort of what I tried (I changed the original program so many times I am not sure). But probably I missed (...) (17 years ago, 27-Nov-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) I do not have the mindsensors DROD-Nx sensor but I have read the documentation from their website. It says that the sensor is an analog sensor which you can read using the standard NXT-G light sensor block. That means you need to configure the (...) (17 years ago, 27-Nov-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) To use the DIST-Nx sensor from mindsensors.com you can use the code at this url: (URL) sure you initialize the sensor using the correct type and properly energize it after you configure the port as a lowspeed port. The sample program is setup (...) (17 years ago, 27-Nov-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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Il giorno 12-nov-2007, alle ore 16:59, GiP ha scritto: (...) Hi, I finally got my mindsensors stuff (including a DIST-Nx) and am still figuring out how to use them with NXC. It seems we need only two functions: - a "do a full initialization" one: (...) (17 years ago, 26-Nov-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Actually, I have them. But it didn't help, I tried to use the I2C functions and the usual SetSensorType but I cannot get a meaningful number, maybe I am doing something wrong. Does anyone have an example of a NXC program that read a (...) (17 years ago, 19-Nov-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) There's also Steve Hassenplug's Display Number block (find it here (URL) along with some other NXT-G goodies). I use this all the time to display values for debugging. John (17 years ago, 19-Nov-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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It seems you don't have the latest NXC*.h header files (found in source release of NXC, not in the binary releases), as well as the latest NXC_Guide.pdf describing I2C functions. alf Il giorno 12-nov-2007, alle ore 16:59, GiP ha scritto: (...) -- (...) (17 years ago, 18-Nov-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Nice. Thanks very much. When I get to my computer, I'm going to check to see how I missed the "Clear Screen" checkbox. (17 years ago, 17-Nov-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) There are lots of ways to display such information on the NXT LCD. The easiest is probably to draw one number, and then use a second Display block to draw a second number - just uncheck the "clear screen" checkbox on the second Display block. (...) (17 years ago, 17-Nov-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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Yesterday, I had a student who wished to display two numeric variables on the screen. We ended up multiplying the first by 1000 then adding the second. This we displayed and read as a packed variable with two shifted values. How can we do this more (...) (17 years ago, 17-Nov-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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Hi, Am I correct that there are no utilities for inspecting the NXT-G programs created with the RoboLab for NXT? I mean: printing the programs created in NXT-G in some human-readable format? Any documentation about the binary format anywhere? (...) (17 years ago, 8-Nov-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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Hi, we just bought some sensors from mindsensor.com but I cannot find any info on how to use them with nxc. I have seen that b33 has two new API but there is no "generic" info on how to use them and the mindsensor.com site has no info or sample (...) (17 years ago, 12-Nov-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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Hi, I'm wondering how to reset a tachometer via the Lego Communication Protocol. Of the three tachometer readings, TachomCount, BlockTacho and RotationCount, I can only see how to reset the latter two using ResetMotorPosition (Bluetooth Developer (...) (17 years ago, 10-Nov-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Installing LeJOS on Linux (Fedora Core 6)
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My sysadmin is trying to install LeJOS for me on our Linux servers. He's having a problem detailed in what I'm posting below. Does anyone have any ideas on what's going wrong? Thanks, Peter Copied message: ***...*** I am trying to build on a fedora (...) (17 years ago, 8-Nov-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | BricxCC release 3.3.7.17
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I posted a new official BricxCC release yesterday: 3.3.7.17. This release includes substantially improved help content for NBC and NXC as well as a built-in NBC compiler (beta 33). If you've been using the latest test release there isn't much new (...) (17 years ago, 6-Nov-07, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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