Programming

Thanks to a very generous person named Thorsten on the ROBOTC forums I am now the proud owner of A RCX 2.0 brick An IR Tower An RCX remote control (not pictured) A USB<->Serial converter I’ve been asked in the past to add support to my ROBOTC drivers for communicating with an RCX using the HiTechnic IR Link sensor.  It ...

Yesterday and today I’ve played a bit with the upcoming E-Meter from the Renewable Energy Add-on Set and whipped up both ROBOTC and NXC drivers for it.  The NXC driver you can find linked below, the ROBOTC driver will be part of the next release of the Driver Suite. You can download the NXC driver right here: [LINK].

If you’re like me and are the proud owner of a small room, also known as the Lego Lair, you may find that the lighting conditions in said room sometimes leave a lot to be desired.  You may not really notice this until you start using a sensor that uses light to do its thing. Take the NXTCam for example.  ...

I’ve uploaded a new release of the ROBOTC Driver Suite. Version 1.5 has a couple of nice changes: Newly added: Drivers for Dexter Industries dFlex, dPressure and temp probe Test program for Mindsensors Touch Sensor MUX with HiTechnic Sensor MUX Driver for additional timers in ROBOTC Documentation changes: All drivers sorted by manufacturer for easy lookup (thanks to John Hansen ...

Finally, after what seems to be half a lifetime and then some, ROBOTC has support for the NXT 2.0 Colour Sensor!  Yes, you read that right, you are not hallucinating! When digging through the header files, it seems the adjustable built-in motor ramping is also back.  Hurray!  The info below was taken from the original article: [LINK]. Bug Fixes: Preserve ...

I am writing this tutorial in response to a Google Search query that landed someone on this blog.  Now I am pretty sure there isn’t one of those tutorials on my blog, so I am not sure what brought that person here.  To make sure the next person who lands here does get a satisfactory answer, I’ve put something up. ...

Programming the NXT is nice.  However, sometimes you run into limits that you think shouldn’t be there.  This morning I hit one of those and scratched my head: “How to fix this?”.  Normally there are 4 timers at your disposal in ROBOTC (this also goes for NXC, as far as I am aware of).  I am not sure why we ...

A new release of the 3rd Party ROBOTC Driver Suite is out! Version 1.4 includes quite a number of changes and new drivers: Newly added drivers: Holit Data Systems Motor MUX Mindsensors Motor MUX Mindsensors Touch MUX Philips PCF8574 driver for Mindsensors Magic Wand and PCF8574 prototyping board HiTechnic IR Seeker 2 driver (HTIRS2), replaces HTDIR Lots of extra examples ...

It’s been a bit quiet here.  Mind you, this isn’t because I’ve been slacking.  Far from it, in fact.  I’ve been working on a new version of the driver suite with a number of new drivers and some other assorted goodies.  Some new devices that will be supported by the next version are: Mindsensors Motor MUX (no product page yet) ...

Mike Barnkob posted a really nice project on the ROBOTC forums;  a liquid handling robot.  I am sure you’ve seen them on most CSI shows; not like this one, however.  As you can see from the picture, it’s a fairly large contraption.  For additional coolness, he made use of the Firgelli Linear Actuators. The motors are controlled by using two NXTs ...