It's not all actually about the OS sometimes. In my comment above, the Vista that is super slow is only a year old and doesn't have any unnecessary background programs running. But the Vista is always doing background work, and after some research it was some Cleaning up the Hard Drive and doing System Restore stuff, which is a special feature of Vista. Nov 4, , AM. You can't disable them Because of this, I have to convert my simple NXT-G programs to textual code, and there is no decompiler to convert a program from on language to another.
I am swapping to ubuntu, and Microsoft can't stop me. Klaus said…. I use Windows 7 bit and the NXT 1. The software crashes sometimes during startup, but usually works after the second start. Nov 13, , PM. The Lees Big Bear Retreat said…. I'm using NXT 2. There's some problem during adding a block if the screen is rather full. A pop-up will occur and you have to click OK before you can attach the block. There's also the random crashes.
Nov 19, , AM. Ah, yes, those symptoms. Those are signs judging by my computers and their multiple operating systems of you using NXT-G. Whether these general symptoms occur when using a powerful computer or not, I have no idea. But I hope not! Nov 19, , PM. Unknown said…. Most often on blue-tooth, the problem is that NXT won't be able to connect even though the blue tooth connection has been established through windows.
It just doesn't get recognized by NXT. Nov 24, , AM. Windows installs the NXT bluetooth drivers the ffirst time, but after that, you tell it to connect, it starts installing the drivers which already exist , bluetooth times out, and we don't have the slightest idea what windows did with the drivers. I get an error message saying Its Win7 Ultimate 64 bit. Nov 28, , PM. Dec 12, , PM. Very informative. Thank you very much. Thank you for this posting Great template application development. Found a way easier method Just go to task manager and close the popup with "Dosn't have enough memory" Thanks, Oliver.
Scratched my head all of two minutes when this did not install on the new desktop - and Googled to find this post. Thanks a lot!!!!! I got stuck on the part where he only shows the driver. But you realy helped me out! My bluetooth connections seem to create the paired authentication OK, but then the connect from the LEGO software fails with an error Sorry; unfortunately, as pointed out by one user, playtime with my robot seemed to be quite short lived and in the end I didn't end up posting very much more useful stuff.
I sold mine a few months back. At least I feel a little better that I could at least help a few people. What I might do is dig up the C program I wrote back then and share that. Not sure how much use it is anymore A great post for this certain topic. Information damage situation is often a headache for the user. To be able to resolve this concern, the gurus have launched several data files recovery solutions. If a deletion of data problem has taken place, person got to know which application or software package to apply as a way to deal with this scenario of data damage.
Thank you SO much for this article. I just picked up an old Mindstorm set and it obviously wasn't compatible with Windows 7. I've been wading through forums for days until I came across your blog and now everything is installed and ready to go. Really appreciate the conciseness of your post.
Thanks again. Hi Oliver, I did just like you say in your tutorial, and in Programs and Features there are all 3 programs it should have, just like your tutorial explains. The problems is that when I double click the NXT icon to star the software, a pop-up window appear with this message "Error loading fantom.
Would you know how can I fix it? Thanks a lot! I have the same issue as Yuri Correa Fontes The problem is that when I double click the NXT icon to star the software, a pop-up window appear with this message "Error loading fantom.
NET I had a bit of a look to see how far I'd actually gotten with it for old times sake. I tried to get all the software up and running, but because I was running Windows 7 RC x64 I had all sorts of problems. Hopefully this guide will help others using Windows 7 or even Vista x64 in the future. I will run through both getting the USB cable working as well as communicating through Bluetooth.
I simply haven't used them before! Prepare Software First of all we will get all the files that we need in order to get everything working. Follow the prompts with default settings and default installation path. Once completed you should get the following message:. Make sure that the NXT is actually turned ON, because it does tend to switch itself off automatically without you noticing.
If this did not work for you then all I can suggest is that you make sure all previous drivers and anything you have done up to this point is deleted and you start again. Note that the driver I am using here is only for 64 bit systems. The RobotC website also has a 32 bit driver you can try if needed if your system is a 32 bit system. Test Bluetooth. The final step in this guide is to ensure that Bluetooth is working as expected.
When you plug in a USB Bluetooth dongle or use built in Bluetooth you should already have some icons showing up in your Device Manager. You should see something like this:. In the Bluetooth menu you can use the search menu to scan for computers. If the NXT Brick was successfully detected and installed as a device you should be able to see it in the Bluetooth devices window of your PC. Something similar to below:. Looking at the properties of the device and clicking on the Hardware tab should give you two serial ports.
These are the serial ports COM Ports that you will be able to connect to using your own custom software. They are literally just seen as standard serial ports and will automatically transfer over Bluetooth. As follows:. Final Remarks. If you wish to use a custom programming language or library you can also make use of the Bluetooth serial ports. Posted by Unknown at 39 comments:. This guide will also allow you to connect to my own. NET NXT interface, which will be released within about two or three weeks depending on my work load with other matters.
Sorry for the delay - been busy with uni studies. This guide does not only apply to the Robotics Studio developed by Microsoft but actually any application you wish to make that needs to communicate through Bluetooth with your NXT.
I will assume that you have already installed the Robotics Studio or other and relevant SDKs and are using whatever the latest version is. I used the September release. To list a few: Microsoft, Bluesoleil, and Widcomm which is now part of Broadcom.
The Microsoft Bluetooth generic drivers are installed when you first plug in your USB Bluetooth dongle or turn on your laptop Bluetooth. No matter what I did, I could not get these drivers to work. I later read that the Microsoft Bluetooth driver does not allow any device other than the PC to be the master.
For this reason the LEGO software works with no problems because, the PC acts as a master in that scenario, but as soon as you try running the "main" progam on the NXT and the try running a Robotics Studio tutorial, the PC becomes the slave and the driver does not like that.
Later I tried the Bluesoleil drivers which came with my USB dongle but once again I could not establish any useful connections. My success story started when I switched to the Widcomm drivers. I currently use release 1. Both work fine, but the LEGO software does not like either. I tried reinstalling the LEGO software and after installation it told me that Widcomm is not supported. Soon I will release my own. I found Robotics Studio to be much too complicated, with insufficient documentation and very little community support.
I talked to a robotics guy from Microsoft and he said they have no intention to make it easier and are aiming for industrial robots. You should also note that with the NXT brick you can only establish a connection in one direction. The NXT does not support bi-directional communication.
When your Bluetooth is plugged in you should just have the Microsoft drivers. If your Bluetooth is unplugged your device manager should have no Bluetooth devices listed.
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