Mindboards

Thanks for the response. I got a program working but it appears the 2 actuators do what they want regardless of what the program states, on a looped program of touch, extend 20mm, touch, return 20mm. After about 20 pushes, one actuator ended up extended fully and the other fully retracted. It would ...

NXT-G?? You learn something new everyday. I just googled creating a custom block and the tutorial seems straight forward enough. I'll give that a bash first and if that doesn't work out I'll try your plan B. Thanks very much for your reply, it has been unbelieveable helpful

No idea! I'm using the basic programming package that comes with the Mindstorm 8547 kit, it says LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT at the top of my screen if that helps any

Hi, first post of what I suspect to be many. I work for a small design consultancy and have been asked to create a robot to accomplish a list of tasks. Problem being is that I have no robotics experience! I have 2 Lego NXT kits available to me as well as 2 Firgelli actuators. I've been playing with ...