Tech Tips from TechBrick
This is our growing collection of cool tech
tips from our work. Enjoy.
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| How to Avoid Broken Links in NXT
Programming and make it possible for
many students to programming
independently.
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 When you program in NXT the programs store various
relationships between elements,
particularly MyBlocks, as Windows paths
like this: "C:\ Documents and
Settings\John Doe\My Documents\My
Pictures" However, you do not have
access to these stored paths so if you
do a complex program, and then try to
open it from a back up on another
computer, all the paths are wrong and
the program fails you you have to
painstakingly re-link everything. Move
the files from one computer to another,
open in a different user account, and
everything breaks and even attempts to
re-link file often doesn't work. |
| How to Calibrate NXT Motors with No
Tools
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 It
is essential that your motors
(particularly paired driving motors) be
as close as possible in performance
specs. So how do you do this without
torque gauges, tachometers, etc.? Leu
Beach, one of our new mentors, along
with our programmers, Jonathan, Doug,
Nate, and Cole, came up with the most
amazing, simple, calibration system
ever. |
| How to Manage Files and Folders So
You Don't Lose Your Work
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Try To Teach Your Team to Name Files and Folders in
a Logical Manner. We fight this battle
every year with programs named "Our cool
whacko program" or "Third box test" etc.
So we'll try again (and you should,
too). Here are some tips. |
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