LEG0 - NXT : Questions from a newcomer

[chilly_charly]

Hello,

Although the box has been standing on my desk for the last 6 months or so, this is the first time I'm giving a serious look at it.

I have connected all the stuf, run the demo application, downloaded the LabVIEW toolbox, verified that the examples were working. I even have a project ! Great !

Of course I could run like that for a while and I'm sure exploration would be fun.

However, I believe that I can also benefit from the experience you have all accumulated on the subject, and considereing this board, avoid reading through most of the exchanges - a serious volume, often obsolete by now.

Would you help me on my track ?

I have a few questions :

  1/ What should I read first ?

  2/ What should I do first ?

  3/ Have you some experience of using LabVIEW on a Macintosh running Windows XP (with VMware or Parallel) ? Specifically about bluetooth connection ?

  4/ What kind of accuracy/reproducibility can I expect from the servomotors ?

Thanks for your help !

I can confirm the recent forum update is buggy - This post was intended in the NXT board !

Message Edité par chilly charly le 11-05-2007 03:49 AM

[Bob_Y.]

CC;

You could do what I did:  Hand it to a 12 year-old boy and give him a day or two to figure it out.  Then ask him to show you what he built and how he did it.  I learned a lot both about the NXT and my son!

There are some different ways to go about learning with it and it depends what your goals are.  Are you trying to use it to learn robotics, learn programming (surely not as your posts here show you know programming quite well), teach robotics, teach programming, or just play?  I have mine to just play and to teach programming to my kids.  I have looked over the tutorials that come with the software and I think I could answer questions that the kids come up with. 

Hope that this helps you,
Bob Young

[chilly_charly]

Thanks Bob !

Handling

[chilly_charly]

Thanks Bob !

Handling the

[chilly_charly]

Thanks Bob !

Handling the thing

[chilly_charly]

Thanks Bob !

Handling the thing to a young boy is indeed a good idea. That would be a real fun ! Unfortunately I have no kid at hand : mine is already 29 years old. Sure he would enjoy the job, even if a bit too old, but he is too busy presently. And, since he has not founded a familly yet, I don't have a grandson as spare part. 😄

My goals are multiples :

    2/ use Lego NXT as a teaching tool for my bioengineering students. I'm sure they will enjoy it !

   1/ Play for myself. 😄   I would like to take sky night pictures, and to get still images of the stars during the long exposure time required, I wonder if I could build an equatorial mount to hold my DSLR camera and compensate the earth rotation.

Sorry for the multiple posts. Seems the tab bug is still active... Long time no see...