Try it

Before diving into nxt and ROS make sure that you can communicate with your brick by running a simple test.

Start a roscore in a new terminal:

• roscore 

Then run one or both of the following tests in another terminal:

Touch sensor, plug the touch sensor into PORT1 and run the following code. It will display the current state of the touch sensor.

• rosrun nxt_python touch_sensor_test.py 

Color sensor,plug the color sensor into PORT1 and run the following code. It will cycle the LED colors and display the intensity then the color detected.

• rosrun nxt_python color_sensor_test.py 

Your computer is not configured correctly or the brick is off if you see:

• Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/u/mwise/external_repos/foote-ros-pkg/nxt/trunk/nxt_python/sensor_tests/touch_sensor_test.py", line 21, in <module>
      sock = nxt.locator.find_one_brick()
    File "/u/mwise/external_repos/foote-ros-pkg/nxt/trunk/nxt_python/src/nxt/locator.py", line 57, in find_one_brick
      raise BrickNotFoundError
  nxt.locator.BrickNotFoundError

Next step

Now check out our starter robots in nxt_robots.

Or, find tutorials and more documentation in nxt.