Hi Gordon,
Please contact us at: info@sbrick.com and tell us your registered e-mail address. We will check your problem asap.
Hi,
I am new here and I hope this is the correct topic...
I hve bought 2 sbrick (which has not yet arrived) and I wanted to "test" the iOS App in advance with my iPhone 6.
The problem is I cannot login to the social network? I have tried to use the same login l am using for this site and I think this is correct.
Any advises for me?
Yes you can, thanks for these converter cables:
http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Converter-Cables-for-LEGO-MINDSTORMS-NXT-8528?p=8528
http://powerfunctions.lego.com/en-us/Products/8886.aspx
[blockquote]jean-christian rey said:
hello
what is the best tablette to use sbrick ?
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As Android and Windows are still beta I think the answer is for the moment iPad 2 min
(https://social.sbrick.com/wiki/view/pageId/12/slug/application-device-compatibility)
Last time I used Matlab was some 20 years ago at college so can't help you.
Raspberry Pi Foundation has made an agreement with Wolfram Mathematica so it is available (I think) free for use with the Pi and there are people using it with the PiCam or common USB webcams. And Raspberry Pi can talk with the SBrick, I had already done it. But is linux-based and I understand that is difficult to start with.
Good luck for your project, keep us informed of your progress.
If you are considering Linux you may also consider some open source alternatives to Matlab like GNU Octave and a few others: http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2013/07/14/2-free-software-alternatives-to-matlab/
GNU Octave claims "The Octave language is quite similar to Matlab so that most programs are easily portable." But I don't know if it can answer your image capture and processing needs.
If your goal is specifically multi train controlling there are other less computer demanding options (i'm beggining a simple Mindstorms EV3 setup with RFID sensors before switching tracks and RFID tags in the trains but others are using reed switches or hall effect sensors in hot spots of the track path and magnets in the trains, color sensors, etc)
Hi Charles.
You are using Windows, right? I've been using Linux but this week I joined the Dark Side for a moment. I plugged my USB BT4.0 dongle in a Windows 7 laptop, it recognized it and promptly installed several drivers from Windows Update. After that I had several virtual devices, including 3 virtual COM ports. But I don't know how to talk with SBrick through those COM ports (if possiible at all).
ButMatlab supports calling external (shell) commands: http://blogs.mathworks.com/community/2010/05/17/calling-shell-commands-from-matlab/
In Linux, you could use this to invoke the gatttool command (or better invoke some shell scripts that use the gatttool command) to achieve what you want. But in Windows there is no gatttool so you will need to access the SBrick with .Net. Can't help you on that but there is someone in the forums who created a Windows Mobile app, perhaps he can help you.
There are also two possibilities: invoking Python from Matlab and invoking Matlab from Python: http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/getting-started_buik_wp-3.html As there is some progress in creating python libraries for BLE, you might try investigate this.
Or wait for Vengit to release a SDK for Windows.
(Tamás was faster)
You can use the old 9V battery box. You just need a Power Functions extension cord. You can even use just the light grey plug, not the whole cable - you plug the light grey plug on top of the 9V battery box and the SBrick on top of it.
You can use it only in one way - the 2 studs side of the plug to the inside the battery box and the cable side of plug to the outside.
