NI NXT Toolkit Official Forum
Tuesday, December 5th, 2006NI has an official forum for discussions regarding the new NXT toolkit for LabVIEW:
http://forums.ni.com/ni/board?board.id=beta18
Of course, you can still use NXTasy forums for discussions on the toolkit.
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NXT LabVIEW Toolkit DirectCommand VIs
Tuesday, December 5th, 2006When the Fantom driver was released, I was somewhat disappointed that LEGO released only a low-level interface. Indeed, within a few weeks several high-level wrappers were created by the community — such as NXT#, iCommander, Ruby-NXT, SimpleNXT etc. Yet there was still no high-level VI library for LabVIEW that allowed easy PC control over Bluetooth (BT) or USB.
Now, with the release of the NXT LabVIEW Toolkit from NI, this vacancy has been filled. The NXT Toolkit has three major components: a set of VIs that can be compiled into NXT code and run on-brick, a set of support VIs that allow creating new NXT-G Blocks, and a set of VI wrapping Fantom into higher-level graphical programming library for NXT control on PC (and Mac).
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NXT LabVIEW Toolkit Overview
Tuesday, December 5th, 2006Although the “official” release is scheduled for next week, National Instruments (who developed NXT-G and the firmware running on the NXT brick) “leaked” to the NXT community that the toolkit is available online as of today, December 5th, 2006. The LabVIEW Tookit for LEGO Mindstorms NXT is available for download on NI website.
Being granted the privilege to be a member of the beta testing group, I was able to play around with some of its functionalities over the past months. A scratch overview of the toolkit is described in this post.
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It’s Here! NI LabVIEW Toolkit for LEGO Mindstorms NXT
Tuesday, December 5th, 2006
National Instruments has just released the widely anticipated NI LabVIEW Toolkit for LEGO Mindstorms NXT! Click the screenshot above for a closer look. Download and enjoy!
Per National Instruments:
Users including adults, students and secondary school and university educators can now can create and download VIs to operate and control the MINDSTORMS NXT robotics platform. Third-party software and hardware developers can also use the toolkit to create native blocks for MINDSTORMS NXT software.
Once a LabVIEW program has been compiled and downloaded to the NXT, the toolkit can be used to interact with the NXT robot while a program is running. By dropping a LabVIEW control, the toolkit can send data to the robot and influence the currently executing program. By dropping an indicator, the value at that point in the program is sent back to the PC and viewed in a regular LabVIEW front panel. Developers of third-party sensors and other hardware add-ons for MINDSTORMS NXT can use LabVIEW to create native blocks that program and control their hardware for use in MINDSTORMS NXT software.
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Updated LDraw and LeoCAD Parts for NXT
Tuesday, December 5th, 2006
Philo’s home page has been updated with downloads to his latest LDraw and LeoCAD NXT parts libraries.
LeoCAD
A few new parts, and several improved, thanks to the work of Kevin Clague and Daniele Benedettelli.LDraw
A few new parts, and several improved, thanks to Kevin Clague’s work.
[via TheNXTStep]
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