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Originally Posted by gunsanbob

i would rather use the lego mindstorms ultrasonic sensor

which much easier to program

Here is the link http://mindstorms.lego.com/Products/...%20Sensor.aspx

Just have look at the other sensor and give me reply if they can be used with the FRC robots

First off, pretty much ANY sensor can be made to work with any processor. The question is how much effort is involved.

The lego minstorms sensor is specifically designed to work with the LEGO platform, so when you refer to it being "easier to program" are you referring to it being easy to program on the NXT or on the IFI Robot Controller? It is certainly easy to program on the NXT because the NXT compiler contains code to interface with that specific sensor.

The Maxbotix sensor, however, is about the easiest sonar to interface to the IFI RC if you use the analog input (which is really, really easy to use... just one line of code!) This is that because rather than returning raw sensor data, the Maxbotix actually contains a PIC chip that processes the data and provides the information in a variety of formats suitable for a wide range of processors.

Jason