By James J. Trobaugh, Mannie Lowe
Profitable LEGO MINDSTORMS Programming is your price tag to effectively programming for enjoyable and festival with LEGO MINDSTORMS and the NXT-G programming language customary in FIRST LEGO League occasions. The e-book is a better half identify to writer James Trobaugh’s acclaimed ebook on actual robotic layout, successful Design!. This new ebook focuses squarely at the programming part of operating with MINDSTORMS. jointly the 2 books positioned you on a rock-solid origin for growing with LEGO MINDSTORMS, no matter if for enjoyable at domestic or in festival with a team.
Winning LEGO MINDSTORMS Programming units the degree by means of emphasizing the significance of up entrance making plans, and brooding about the problem to be met. learn how to evaluation attainable ideas by way of sanity-testing their good judgment sooner than you set the hassle into really writing the code. Then pick out your only option and write the code utilising the strategies during this booklet. reap the benefits of language gains equivalent to MyBlocks to augment reliability and create easy-to-debug code. deal with your code as you alter and enhance it that you can hint what you’ve performed and fall again if wanted. keep away from universal programming pitfalls. paintings powerfully with teammates to beat festival demanding situations of all types.
* presents reliable recommendations just like these utilized by expert programmers, and optimized for the LEGO MINDSTORMS platform.
* Addresses key initiatives vital to pageant resembling line detection, line following, squaring of corners, motor stall detection, and more.
* Compliments successful layout! by means of tackling the programming part of festival.
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Figure 2-3. List of tasks for the “Grab spinning top” mission Having a simple list of tasks for a mission can make even the most complicated missions seem much less complicated. If any of your tasks are overly complex, you may need to break the task down even further. The goal is to keep things simple and easy to understand. For example, in Figure 2-4 you see a more complicated task list for a mission that involves locating a car on the game field and returning it to base. Figure 2-4. ” To you this may seem simple, the logic being that the robot will use a claw attachment to simply grasp the car.
This is called a Code Review and is a process used in Software Engineering. Sometimes your solution to the problem might spring up when you talk to someone else, just because you are explaining your code. 43 44 CHAPTER 4: When Things Go Wrong Viewing Values Being able to see the values that the program is evaluating can be very helpful, since you may be assuming that a particular value is something different than what the program is really seeing. The NXT View menu Built into the NXT firmware is the View submenu (Figure 4-1), which allows you to do a quick test of your data values from each of your sensors and motors.
It helps to bring in another team member who isn’t as familiar with the code as you are, to look at the code with a fresh set of eyes. Often you are so close to the code that you miss the obvious problems that someone else could help you find. This is called a Code Review and is a process used in Software Engineering. Sometimes your solution to the problem might spring up when you talk to someone else, just because you are explaining your code. 43 44 CHAPTER 4: When Things Go Wrong Viewing Values Being able to see the values that the program is evaluating can be very helpful, since you may be assuming that a particular value is something different than what the program is really seeing.