Robotics-2010

NXT-Python Documentation

Largely a work in-progress, please add/edit as you learn the details.

nxt.locator

The function of this module is to locate NXT brick(s). Returns an nxt.bluesock.BlueSock object for robots connected by Bluetooth and a nxt.usbsock.USBSock object for robot connected by USB, and throws nxt.locator.BrickNotFoundError if none can be found.

• Objects
  • nxt.bluesock.BlueSock - The object returned by find_one_brick() when a brick is found on a Bluetooth connection.

• Methods
  • connect() - Try to connect to the brick.
  • close() - Close connection to brick.
  • host - Returns the address of the brick.

   generator object find_bricks

       The object returned by find_bricks(). Methods (incomplete):

           next()

               Find the next brick in the sequence. Returns the same thing as find_one_brick(). 

Methods: (incomplete)

   find_one_brick(host=None, name=None) (incomplete)

   find_bricks(host=None, name=None)

       Use to find all the bricks in the area. Returns a generator object find_bricks. 

Example: import nxt.locator sock = nxt.locator.find_one_brick() brick = sock.connect() print brick.host brick.close()

nxt.motor

nxt.sensor