Controlling your robot with a Playstation 2 remote is all well and good but what if you want to use something else? No worries, with the new Mindsensors Playstation 2 controller interface, you can also get a model that can receive IR signals from a standard TV remote. Sounds cool? Well it is. When I released my Driver Suite yesterday ...
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My robot Skittles is a big robot; he’s probably one of the biggest wheeled robots I’ve made so far. When the Mindsensors PSP-Nx-V4 came in last week, I knew I had to make it remote controllable. I finished up the last bits of the driver for the new sensor yesterday and so this evening I cobbled together some code to ...
Read More »The mailman brought me a very nice package today, courtesy of the fine folks at Mindsensors! Among its contents was a brand new PSP-Nx V4-c, the PS2 Controller Interface for NXT, together with a wireless PS2 Controller. So what makes the new V4 better than the V3? For one, there’s the IR receiver on the back which allows it to ...
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