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Re: nxt minibot

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Originally Posted by MattC9 View Post
Just a head's up lots of team's arn't using the NXT on there mini-bot, for various reasons. You can wire directly from motor to battery (thats what we did along with other teams).

Heres a few quick tutorial that will answer all of your questions http://www.education.rec.ri.cmu.edu/...x_testbed.html
We also didn't use an NXT. But, from my experience with FTC this year, you need a motor controller connected to the NXT, and have your motors hooked up to the motor controller. Then you need the FTC version of LabView to program the NXT.
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