Robotics-2010

NXT-Python Documentation

Largely a work in-progress, please add/edit as you learn the details. Note that this page is documenting the NXT-Python release (URL here), not the NXT_Python release (hyphen vs underscore).

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.

• Status: incomplete as of 2010-02-14

• 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()
    • next() - Find the next brick in the sequence, returns the same thing as find_one_brick().
  • find_one_brick()
  • find_bricks(host=None, name=None) - 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

• Status: incomplete as of 2010-02-14

• Objects

• Methods

• Example

nxt.sensor

• Status: incomplete as of 2010-02-14

• Objects

• Methods

• Example