NI Vision & NXT Compatibility

[Kirk B]

Is the "NI Vision Development Module" compatable with the NXT? 

Here is a sample situation to illustrate the use of the vision system with the NXT:

A ball is balanced on top of a cylinder (on its side): The ball is observed by the vision system, which directs the NXT to control the rotation of the cylinder to keep the ball from rolling off.

[Albert.Geven]

When you use the Vision toolkit and the NXT toolkit from LabVIEW they can be controlled from the same pc

[BradyDuggan]

Albert is right on here. To say that NI Vision and NXT are compatible is kind of a stretch. Really, they are both compatible with desktop LabVIEW. That is, you can write a VI that runs on the desktop PC to do image acquisition and analysis using the NI Vision toolkit. You can also write a VI that runs on the desktop PC that can control the NXT through the Direct Command interface. So you can easily write a VI that runs on the desktop PC that combines these two ideas.

What you currently can't do is write a program that uses NI Vision that would run directly on the NXT (something you'd compile and download using the NXT Terminal). The desktop PC has to be in the loop somehow.

Hope this helps clear things up.

Brady Duggan

National Instruments

[Kirk B]

Thank you Albert and Brady, your information really helps.  I am all cleared up now.

Best regards,

Kirk Backstrom