Success! Bluetooth Connection on Intel Mac
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006
The software provided with the LEGO Mindstorms NXT for Macintosh computers was compiled to run natively on machines with PPC processors. For Macs with Intel processors, PPC-native applications run under emulation mode using Rosetta. Unfortunately, the Rosetta emulator does not support bluetooth at this time, so NXT users are anxiously awaiting a universal binary with the hopes that it will bring improved NXT-G IDE performance and bluetooth connectivity.
With yesterday’s release of the NXT development kits, however, Tony Buser did some research and was able to successfully establish a bluetooth connection between his NXT and Macbook! Small steps towards his eventual goal of creating a Ruby module capable of communicating with his NXT via bluetooth.
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NXT US Radar - Proof of Concept
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006Forum member robotech does it again with another great advanced project for the LEGO Mindstorms NXT. This time, he demonstrates how to generate an offline data-driven radar display on the NXT’s LCD and provides the framework for interfacing it with real-time ultrasonic sensor data. Very, very cool!
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Steve Hassenplug’s “Omni”
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006
Here’s an interesting robot presented at the “Big Robot on Campus” event in Redmond Campus of Microsoft. It uses 3 motors, each connected to a “wheel” made of 12 smaller wheels. This allows Omni to move at virtually any direction.
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Good job Steve!
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