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As great as RobotC is, the one thing that its users have consistently complained about is the lack of good tutorials that go beyond the simple “move motorA at 20% speed”.  Well, rather than waiting for the CMU Robotics Academy to come up with one, Albert Schueller, one of the professors from Whitman College, has written an excellent course called ...

A new release of the drivers has been uploaded.  No code changes but the minimum requirement has gone from RobotC 1.40 to 1.46 after problems were reported with some of the drivers. RobotC 1.46 can be downloaded from the following location: [LINK].  There is also a 1.47B available, which can be downloaded here: [LINK]. The drivers’ Source Forge project page ...

This made me laugh out loud for real.  I think I’ve played about 10 times now and I am still not sick of it.  The Swedish one is the best.

A new release of the 3rd Party Driver Suite for RobotC is out! This version is RC1. The obligatory Changelog: – Driver for the new HiTechnic IR Seeker v2 (HTDIR) has been added – Driver for the HiTechnic Compass Sensor, which I had forgotten to include with beta1 has been added – New experimental function in the NXTCam driver to ...

My first article on NXTasy.org has been published: [LINK]!  I’m going to be writing a series of articles for NXTasy.org about control systems and PID-control in particular.  Be sure to check back regularly for updates. In other news: a new release of my drivers is imminent.  It will include a driver for the HT Compass, a new additional function in ...

Several months ago I saw on the Mindsensors website that they were looking for beta testers for their upcoming Line Leader sensor.  I applied and shortly thereafter I was contacted by one of the guys there named Deepak. He told me they were still in Alpha testing phase but that they’d get back to me when they were ready to ...

After many weeks of writing and testing, I’m ready to release my first suite of RobotC drivers for quite a number of devices and sensors.  I’ve tried to make sure that every API call was documented and (almost) all drivers have an example program to demonstrate how to use the driver.  The documentation was created using Doxygen. The drivers make ...

What is nicer than attaching a Sharp IR sensor to your NXT?  Attaching 8 of them, of course. That is what my friend Helmut wanted to do with his NXT.  Unfortunately, as good a programmer as he might be, messing around with electronics just wasn’t his “Tasse Tee” (that is cup of tea for you non-German speaking folks). 8 Sharp ...

Technorati Tags: NXTCam,Mindsensors,NXT,RobotC I got a Mindsensors NXTCam2 for my birthday last year but hadn’t had much time to play with it yet.  That is, until today.  The NXTCam2 detects objects by matching them to one of 8 user-programmable colour ranges.  The objects and their colour can then be retrieved via a few trivial I2C commands. You would think that ...

This is a transcript of a conversation between my geeky wife and I.  Yeah, we use MSN to chat with each other when we’re in different rooms of the apartment.  Saves us having to shout at each other. BreighI wish there was such thing as a wireless HD Xander Soldaatthey do exist BreighImagine like 1TB of wireless HD spaceorgasm Xander ...