NXT Radar - Part III

Monday, May 21st, 2007

In this post I’ll describe how I programmed the NXT Radar using LabView. I’ve decided to use LabView, the core engine of NXT-G, to demonstrate how to use a more ‘mature’ graphical programming language for NXT. The NI LabView toolkit for Mindstorms NXT (download free in NI website) allows, besides making new NXT-G blocks (which I’ve covered some advanced issues of in previous posts), to compile programs for the NXT. The compiler used is the same as in NXT-G, yet one has more access to low-level implementation of the firmware commands and typically less overhead. In writing the code I decided to adopt a unconventional approach - let the NXT stream data to the PC as the Bluetooth master. (more…)

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