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Yes, this is definitely possible! You can connect up to 7 different NXT devices from one computer and one Bluetooth dongle (theoretical limit). I have tested this with the RWTH - Mindstorms NXT Toolbox for MATLAB) successfully with 5 NXTs on Linux and with at least 2 NXTs on Windows.
In real life, it depends on your Bluetooth hardware. Your Bluetooth stack ...
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If you wish to program the EV3 with Scratch, then check out this project on github:
https://github.com/koen-dejonghe/ev3-scratch-helper-app
This software is a so-called helper app, that interfaces between the Scratch 2.0 offline editor and the Lego Mindstorms EV3.
The EV3 must be booted from Lejos (http://sourceforge.net/p/lejos/wiki/Home/), requires a ...
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No, but you can use a very similar programming language: Enchanting.
(I haven't tried it yet. It was recommended by the programming instructor).
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Yes, it is possible to pass the port number as a parameter to a sensor or motor block via data wire. It's just that it's manually selected by default. To change this, go to the port of the sensor or motor block, and select the top-most option which has the plug icon on it:
It will then create a data port for which motor port you want to use:
The same ...
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LEGO calls this communication protocol the "LEGO Wireless Protocol" (LWP). The documentation is publicly available at https://lego.github.io/lego-ble-wireless-protocol-docs/.
There is also a GitHub repository that provides the source of this website at https://github.com/LEGO/lego-ble-wireless-protocol-docs. Because of this, it seems reasonable to expect ...
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You can't calibrate the motors, neither mechanically or in software. There is however several methods in the software to account for this.
The standard NXT firmware contains a synchronization mode which attempt to keep the two motors aligned. In NXC you can do this by using the function OnFwdSync like this:
OnFwdSync( OUT_AC, 75, 0 );
First parameter is the ...
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I could not find this in the help file, but according to this thread "Another little known characteristic of MyBlocks is that they aren't re-entrant. No two copies of the same MyBlock can be running at the same time."
I tried a few simple programs in EV3-G and confirmed that this is true. The order in which they run appears to be random.
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Your code handling the behaviours like "Shoot 3 times if the touch sensor is triggered" or "Shoot if the light sensor is triggered" should use 'if' statements.
Then, instead of always being called, the "shooting" code would append only on sensor events. After shooting, the robot would then go back to the "Driving around" part of the code.
This page is a ...
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It turns out that the issue is a faulty/weak motor connector socket. While randomly trying to troubleshoot, I found that if I did nothing more than press or move the cable, the motor would act bizarrely. Initially I thought it was a bad cable, but after trying additional cables it seems that it is more likely just a poor connection at the motor. I suppose ...
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After looking around a bit in the NXT IO palette in LabVIEW, I found a few functions which will sync the motors while driving the robot. The "drive distance" and "steering on" VIs will both sync the motors appropriately to make the robot drive straight.
The "motor on" and "motor reverse" blocks, which are the default options if you don't go down into the ...
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The difference in speed can't be avoided. Even if the motors themselves were carefully paired, differences of friction on the axles or weight unbalance of the robot would result in speed mismatch. I am not used to LabVIEW, but the NXT firmware has a way to synchronize two motors, this functionnality should be available in LabVIEW.
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It is possible now (since version 1.3.0) by pressing the button at the upper left corner of the block:
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One way of doing this is using a loop and interrupting it.
How it works:
The "Loop Interrupt" block stops all blocks running inside of the loop, so by interrupting the loop after either wait block, it will stop the other wait block. The type of loop doesn't actually matter because we never reach that point. I chose to wait for "Logic" with a value of "...
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I think it would be more realistic to have the robot drive in a straight line but have a linkage to the foci of the ellipse that "pulls" the robot towards the center of the ellipse just as orbiting objects are pulled toward Earth by gravity.
For example, you could use two nails in a board as the foci. Tie a string in a loop to use as the linkage. Place the ...
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Update:
There is a tool at http://ev3treevis.azurewebsites.net/ that can be use to create a new .ev3 file from a .rbf file recovered from an EV3 brick. Some information will be lost, but at least simple programs should be able to be recovered.
Original answer:
You can extract the compiled program from the EV3. Compiled programs have a .rbf file extension. ...
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A sensor port can't directly output to a motor. The sensor drivers can't provide enough power to supply a motor.
You have a couple options:
Daisy-chain two EV3s together. The first can control the sensors and
motors of the second.
Use an electronic motor multiplexer. EDIT: It should be noted that this requires an external power supply, which will increase ...
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From the page you linked to we can see that the NXC OnFwd method has the following parameters:
void OnFwd (byte outputs, char pwr)
The power or speed parameter is listed as a char type, and looking around elsewhere on the site we find the definition of the char to be:
In NXC the char type is a signed 8-bit value. This type can store values from ...
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Mitch Resnick at the MIT Media Lab is the developer of both Scratch and the original Mindstorms programmable brick, and the original Mindstorms programming interface was very similar to Scratch. If you have one of the original Mindstorms Robotics Invention System sets (and a PC of the proper vintage on which to run the software) she would probably find it ...
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The problem can be restated:
360 / 20 = 18 deg / sec = 1 deg / .056 sec
One degree is the smallest increment provided by the rotation sensors.
NXT-G has a timer sensor with 1/100th second resolution.
In pseudo-code:
Set a motorPower variable to 10
Start a timer
Loop until rotationDegrees >= 360
If timeElapsed * 18 > rotationSensorDegrees
...
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No, the standard NXT-G software provided by LEGO will not allow you to program a RCX brick.
Outside of official software, your best bet is probably to use NQC which is C-like; there's also NXC for the NXT which is similar.
There are a lot of others which have been discussed in the following questions: Is there any other way to program the Lego Mindstorms ...
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As was pointed out, this question is not specific in nature, so it's hard to give a definitive answer. If you haven't already done so, it would probably be helpful head over to Lego.com and grab get the NXT 2.0 User Guide and perhaps begin looking through the sample programs.
This book may also be helpful to you:
The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 Discovery Book: ...
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The ultrasonic cannot detect the color of objects. It's just to detect the distance between the sensor and an object in it's line of sight.
To find objects in the surrounding area of your robot you have to look all around. This is simply done by rotating your robot or your sensor. When you measure a distance in a certain range (best results between aprox. ...
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This can usually be achieved on the EV3 with a bootable SD card - you would set that up with a new firmware image and a loader that copies it across to the brick.
The leJOS team have ported their codebase to the EV3 - so with a bootable SD card you can indeed load a modified version of the firmware onto your EV3 brick.
You can then use their WiFi stack to ...
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I know that this question is old, but if someone else has this question, I have found that these error messages often appear when you are either trying to access a non existent array (i.e. you copied the block from another project and you did not change the name of the variable) OR when trying to access a value of an array with an index that does not exist (...
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There is a (new?) LEGO brand sound sensor (9845) for $35 on the LEGO store. I don't know if it's suitable for your particular application but sounds plausible.
Using the NXT Brick (sold separately), the Sound Sensor allows your LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT robot to hear! The Sound Sensor is able to measure noise levels in both dB (decibels) and dBA (frequencies ...
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To get the actual time of day, you can use the mindsensors.com Realtime Clock Sensor.
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This is more of a LabView answer than a Mindstorms answer, but you should be able to create a SubVI that represents a task, and then you can place that in the main VI.
This help document might be useful:
http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/372962A-01/lvnxt/creatingusingsubvi/
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The possible solutions involve realizing that you can multiply the number of possible inputs by implementing long clicks, double clicks, click-and-holds, simultaneous clicks, etc. on the buttons. If I were you, I'd also include a Confirm and maybe a Cancel buttons, but the latter can be substituted by a timeout. You could ease your job if you don't handle ...
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There are two options that I can think of.
Do the "hardware" fix before every run of the robot to reboot the sensor along with the "software" fix to zero it.
Don't use the Angle reading at all. To calibrate the sensor, sample the rate (d/s) 10 times or so and take the average to get the "at rest" rate offset and store it in a variable. Subtract this ...
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My team put their software fix in a loop with a small wait that cycles until the d/s = 0, then reset it to 0. Here's a simplified version:
It works like a charm. We don't mess with the hardware reset anymore. Combined with a heading variable, a turn my block, and a few drive my blocks they can program a maze run in minutes.
FWIW: They output their angle ...
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