[FTC]: NXT-G programming

[Michael Coleman]

This video tutorial should help: http://www.education.rec.ri.cmu.edu/...tetraining.wmv

[ivybotter]

Ok so this tutorial (which I have watched numerous time) talks a lot about labview and RobotC but barely touches on NXTG my problem specifically is that I don't know how to get joystick information from the blue tooth to the motors.

Can anyone help with that?

Thanks
~A

[BLAQmx]

Ivybotter,

The blocks you are describing are only available in the FTC software that shipped with last season's KOP. This season FIRST suggests that teams who used NXT-G in the past to use it for initial testing and prototyping, but they recommend you to move to LabVIEW or RobotC for full competition support.

I highly recommend you and your students spend the time becoming familiar with the fully supported software (for example if the old NXT-G blocks don't play nice with the FCS no one from LEGO or NI is going to fix it ). Since you have used NXT-G in the past LabVIEW will probably be the easiest software to pick up. There are a lot of training resources on the web for LabVIEW including the FIRST Community on www.ni.com/first and http://ftcmastery.com/. If you have any questions regarding using the tools or if you run into issues feel free to post of the forums at www.ni.com/first.

Cheers!
Mark

[Michael Coleman]

Originally Posted by ivybotter

Ok so this tutorial (which I have watched numerous time) talks a lot about labview and RobotC but barely touches on NXTG my problem specifically is that I don't know how to get joystick information from the blue tooth to the motors.

Can anyone help with that?

Thanks
~A

This topic is covered [briefly] about 20% into the video, before the LabVIEW section. The video shows how to connect the FTC Read Packet block to the FTC Read Controller block. The Read Controller block output sends commands (joystick Y1 & Y2) to the FTC Motor blocks.

I agree with you that the topic is not covered very thoroughly.