December 27, 2006
NXT Tip of the Day - Want more of these? Leave comments...
I can see that there are many new readers to this blog, what with
holiday presents, so I will start ...
The NXT Tip of the Day
which may be more like
The NXT Tip of the Week or The NXT Tip of the Month depending on how much time and how many ideas I have. Please leave comments to encourage me, and suggest ideas you are interested in.
So here is Tip #1: In NXT-G (the graphical programming environment that comes with the NXT, save your program often! Don't wait until you've spent three hours getting all your blocks just right and have tested your program ten times. Save your program ever few blocks you add. This is especially true if you use advanced techniques like connecting wires (on the screen wires, not the black wires you use to connect to motors and sensors) or MyBlocks.
In fact, if you have a complicated program, I would suggest saving to two different file names, keeping one as a backup in case something goes wrong. Anyway who hits the "broken wires" bug will thank me.
holiday presents, so I will start ...
The NXT Tip of the Day
which may be more like
The NXT Tip of the Week or The NXT Tip of the Month depending on how much time and how many ideas I have. Please leave comments to encourage me, and suggest ideas you are interested in.
So here is Tip #1: In NXT-G (the graphical programming environment that comes with the NXT, save your program often! Don't wait until you've spent three hours getting all your blocks just right and have tested your program ten times. Save your program ever few blocks you add. This is especially true if you use advanced techniques like connecting wires (on the screen wires, not the black wires you use to connect to motors and sensors) or MyBlocks.
In fact, if you have a complicated program, I would suggest saving to two different file names, keeping one as a backup in case something goes wrong. Anyway who hits the "broken wires" bug will thank me.
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Yes, please more tips!
This is a great one and applies to any file editor that you work on for longer than 10 minutes.
This is a great one and applies to any file editor that you work on for longer than 10 minutes.
# posted by 
: 9:41 AM
: 9:41 AM
You are absolutely right. The broken wires, even using the tool to remove them. Now i save the same program with different names. Like versions, ex01.rbt ... ex02, ex03 etc...
# posted by : 10:30 AM
: 10:30 AM
I'd like to see tips on using variables, arrays, wires, and custom blocks when you get time.
# posted by : 12:24 PM
: 12:24 PM
Thanks for the ideas, (other) "k". I plan to cover most of those in the coming weeks. Trying to start with some basics before opening the door to hubs and wires. I've seen some an example of code for arrays, but haven't studied it yet.
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