Hi-Technic Color Sensor on Shop@Home

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

The holidays bring the NXT community a nice little gift on the LEGO Shop@Home site - the Hi-Technic Color Sensor.

See a rainbow of color!

Using the NXT Brick (sold separately), the Color Sensor enables your robot to distinguish not only between black and white, but also a range of bright and pastel colors.

Does not include connector cable.
This is the individual component, and does not include the NXT Intelligent Brick, software or any accessories. It requires the complete LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT set (#8527) for use.

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Mindsensors Infrared Distance Sensor

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

Coming soon from mindsensors.com - a high precision infrared distance sensor. Available end of January.

Introducing series of high prevision infrared distance sensors using I2C bus digital interface. These sensors will provide reading directly in millimeters.

These sensors will have built-in calibrations to provide high resolution readings. When not in use, the sensor can be powerd down to conserve battery.

The sensors will come in ranges as follows -
Short range sensor: 4cm to 30cm
Medium range sensor: 10cm to 80cm
Long range sensor: 20cm to 150cm

Scheduled to be available by end of Jan 2007.

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PSP-Nx Block example

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

I was asked for a simple PSP-Nx sample program. Since this may be of common interest, I post it here. As you can see from the image the program is trivial, controlling motor B and C using the two joysticks Y axis. You can download the .rbt file here.

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