data logging using the LEGO MINDSTORMS education NXT software 2.0

The MINDSTORMS Education NXT Software 2.0 contains some features to support data logging that are not available in the other software releases. In this section I’ll briefly cover the data-logging blocks and the NXT data-logging application. (In-depth coverage of these topics is beyond the scope of this book; to learn more, see Damien Kee’s “Datalogging Activities for the Busy Teacher” at http://www.domabotics.com/books/.)

the data-logging blocks

The Start Data Logging and Stop Data Logging blocks, in the Advanced group on the Complete Palette (shown in Figure 16-31), contain all the functionality you need for most data-logging activities. As you’ll see, these two blocks will allow ...

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