The NXTender...
Sivan has brought us another great tool... from his email to me:
"NXTender is a Windows program that allows your NXT to control your PC. It allows the NXT to send keyboard keyclicks to the PC (simulating a keyboard), to open windows and display data in them, and to receive joystick input from the PC. When you use NXTender, you normally program only the NXT brick. The NXTender runs on the PC and does not require programming. Bluetooth messages from the NXTtell the PC what to do, when to send data back, where to send it, what to display on the screen, etc.
Additional functionality can be added to NXTender via relatively-simple plugins that are implemented in Java. That is, the standard version of NXTender does not allow your NXT to control your USB cup warmer, but if you know a little bit of Java and you know how to control that cup warmer from a PC program, then you can write a NXTender plugin that will give your NXT conrol of the cup warmer.
Finally, a challenge. NXTender allows you to build a Lego mouse-type device for your PC without any PC-side programming. Try to build a good one.
Check it out here.
"NXTender is a Windows program that allows your NXT to control your PC. It allows the NXT to send keyboard keyclicks to the PC (simulating a keyboard), to open windows and display data in them, and to receive joystick input from the PC. When you use NXTender, you normally program only the NXT brick. The NXTender runs on the PC and does not require programming. Bluetooth messages from the NXTtell the PC what to do, when to send data back, where to send it, what to display on the screen, etc.
Additional functionality can be added to NXTender via relatively-simple plugins that are implemented in Java. That is, the standard version of NXTender does not allow your NXT to control your USB cup warmer, but if you know a little bit of Java and you know how to control that cup warmer from a PC program, then you can write a NXTender plugin that will give your NXT conrol of the cup warmer.
Finally, a challenge. NXTender allows you to build a Lego mouse-type device for your PC without any PC-side programming. Try to build a good one.
Check it out here.
Comments
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Brian "still Mac-based, after all these years" Davis
In the plugins documentation pages there are example NXT-G programs that should work and that show how it's done.
NQC should also work, since it's sending messages in the same way, via the firmware, but I haven't really tried.
I Dont know if i have instaled NXTender becaouse when I double clik shortcut it apear NXT icon on the tray, but when y put over the icon my mouse it disapear and Im not able to clik it for propertis.
Plz try to answer My question
Thx Nicolas Palacios
Try to run the program from a command line (start->run->cmd) to see if there are any error messages when it crashes, and if there are, send them to me so that I can try to figure out what is going wrong.
I put Start>Run>cmd>C:\Program Files\NXTender\NXTender.bat and nothing happen... I try also whith
C:\Program Files\NXTender
dont know whats going on. Becouse Im not able to see run it form Star>run i dont know if it gives an error.
Do i need to have both blutooth on before runing program? Or How I Instal it? It dont apear like Instaled Programs.
Thx for helping
Nicolas Palacios
My Nxt was working great for 2 month and i Try downloading NXT firmware v 1,03. (meanwhile It was downloading i went to bathroom) When I come back and see my nxt was shut down. I Turnit on and starts like cliking and dont show anithing in screen.
Cant solve this trying to download again Firmware (I Donwload this firmware time ago and work fine) becouse now computer dont recognise -NXT when i connect via USB. PLz Help me!!!
Thx Nicolas Palacios
Quick aside question for Brian "still Mac-based, after all these years" Davis:
Any news about the universal binary version? Wasn't that supposed to happen in august, did I miss it?
How you isntal this software, yus unpack it and its ready?
Then you will see the error message and you can report what it is.
One likely source of problems of this sort is an older version of Java. NXTender requires Java 1.5, so if you have an older version, it will not run. It should not be difficutl to upgrade if this is the problem.
I typed my file destination in cmd
C:\NXtender\Nxtender
Then this appeared below:
[IMG]http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/4799/cmdpd7.jpg[/IMG]
hope now you can help me :)
4799/cmdpd7.jpg
ok ... again... the last one didnt work
Sorry for asking so much ;)
but i realy wish to get that program working :D
Let us know if you succeed.
Thx Nicolas Palacios