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akohrs08

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using the color sensor

Hi,

I'm a college student using Mindstorms 3.05 for an engineering class, and I'm trying to get my NXT to distinguish colors. I just picked up the 6-color sensor but have no idea how to configure it. I've been looking through forums but can't find the basic sample program on ROBOTC that people seem to keep mentioning. I just need a basic way for the sensor to distinguish between red, blue, green, yellow, black, and white. Any starting points or any other form of help is greatly appreciated

Fri Feb 24, 2012 12:39 pm

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Re: using the color sensor

Is this what your looking for?


	Code: #pragma config(Sensor, S1, colorPort, sensorCOLORFULL) //!!Code automatically generated by 'ROBOTC' configuration wizard !!// task main() { string sColor; while (true) { switch (SensorValue[colorPort]) { case BLACKCOLOR: sColor = "Black"; break; case BLUECOLOR: sColor = "Blue"; break; case GREENCOLOR: sColor = "Green"; break; case YELLOWCOLOR: sColor = "Yellow"; break; case REDCOLOR: sColor = "Red"; break; case WHITECOLOR: sColor = "White"; break; default: sColor = "???"; break; } nxtDisplayCenteredTextLine(2, sColor); wait1Msec(50); } }

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Fri Feb 24, 2012 12:43 pm

akohrs08

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Re: using the color sensor

That looks about right, where did you find this? And how do I get the top line starting with #pragma? When I go to Motors and Sensors setup, I don't have any color options. I just have No Sensor, Touch, Light Active, Light Inactive, Sound DB, Sound DBA, and SONAR. Is there a firmware problem since I don't have those color options or is there something I'm missing? When I run your code I run into a bunch of errors, too

Fri Feb 24, 2012 1:07 pm

akohrs08

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Re: using the color sensor

I figured out how to get the top line, turns out I just had to switch to expert mode and my Lego color sensor showed up. Now I'm running into errors regarding the 'case statement not having a constant value' and another saying that the various COLOR variables are undefined and that 'short' is assumed. I'm a fairly new C user, I have some experience in Java and Matlab. Where should I be creating these variables?

Fri Feb 24, 2012 1:24 pm

NeXT-Generation

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Re: using the color sensor

It's in the sample programs. go to "file", then "open sample program", and go to the folder "LEGO Color Sensor". It's the only program in it if your using 3.05. Did you modify the program? You might want to try replacing the "COLOR" things with the numbers 1-6. Like this:


	Code: #pragma config(Sensor, S1, colorPort, sensorCOLORFULL) //!!Code automatically generated by 'ROBOTC' configuration wizard !!// task main() { string sColor; while (true) { switch (SensorValue[colorPort]) { case 1: sColor = "Black"; break; case 2: sColor = "Blue"; break; case 3: sColor = "Green"; break; case 4: sColor = "Yellow"; break; case 5: sColor = "Red"; break; case 6: sColor = "White"; break; default: sColor = "???"; break; } nxtDisplayCenteredTextLine(2, sColor); wait1Msec(50); } }

Both this and the original code work fine for me.

Fri Feb 24, 2012 1:37 pm

akohrs08

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Re: using the color sensor

Sounds good, I'll give that a try and see if I have any more issues. Thank you very much!

Thu Mar 01, 2012 1:20 pm

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