Nxt Compass Sensor Tutorial

The current heading is calculated to the nearest 1 and refreshed 100 times per second.

Nxt compass sensor tutorial.

The nxt sensor ports support three different types of sensor. To use the compass sensor from nxt g an additional piece of software needs to have been added to your computer. Using the hitechnic compass sensor with nxt g. It needs a hitechnic or mindsensors compass sensor plugged in to one of the sensor ports.

It implements the same methods but uses a compass sensor to ensure that the pilot does not deviate from the correct angle of robot heading. The current heading is calculated to the nearest 1 and refreshed 100 times per second. Some of these movies have exercises directly under them. The compass sensor is housed in a standard mindstorms sensor housing to match the other mindstorms elements.

A brief introduction tutorial part 2 duration. The compass sensor connects to an nxt sensor port using a standard nxt wire and uses the digital i2c communications protocol. Using nxt components with a micro controller. But if you are using a port splitter or a remote nxt or rcx it may be of interest.

Put a compass equiped ro bot on a turntable and spin the turntable. The compasspilot is an extension of the differentialpilot class. Program using labview lego. Programming the nxt compass sensor to point in the right direction.

However rather than just providing schematics and sample code for the bs2 i ll be providing some theory on how the sensors work as well. It s important to do these exercises not just assume you get it the advanced section is for reference purposes. At brickfest there was a wonderful demo of the compass sensors. If you are using a sensor connected directly to a nxt sensor port you can use the sensorport class and you can probably skip this section.

Since the us sensor block returns only a single byte the sensor returns the heading angle divided by two currently. The essentials are things every nxt programmer should know. I think this is a limit of the nxt g interface not the sensor itself. This tutorial for lego mindstorms nxt is divided in two sections.

Using hitech compass sensor. Chad cardwell 414 242 views. This is a guide to using the motors and sensors from the lego nxt set with a parallax basic stamp ii or bs2.