stevesmythe
Senior Member
Seven years later ....... !
Seeing that these boards are currently half-price, I bought one to experiment with. Reading the NXT sensors is well-documented in this thread and easy to understand.
However, can someone provide some more detail about what is the intended use of the "slave" mode (i.e. a "virtual sensor")? I don't understand what you would connect to the AXE216 board, and what would be sent to the NXT Brick. Could you, for example, connect a different sort of I2C sensor to the Picaxe so that the NXT Brick would be able to read it? If so, how would the NXT Brick interpret the data received? How do you know what to set the slave address to? Has anybody got any examples of doing this?
Seeing that these boards are currently half-price, I bought one to experiment with. Reading the NXT sensors is well-documented in this thread and easy to understand.
However, can someone provide some more detail about what is the intended use of the "slave" mode (i.e. a "virtual sensor")? I don't understand what you would connect to the AXE216 board, and what would be sent to the NXT Brick. Could you, for example, connect a different sort of I2C sensor to the Picaxe so that the NXT Brick would be able to read it? If so, how would the NXT Brick interpret the data received? How do you know what to set the slave address to? Has anybody got any examples of doing this?