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Expand your NXT experiences with the new NXT Compass Sensor and add accurate navigation to your Mindstorms® NXT projects. The NXT Compass Sensor is a digital compass that measures the earth's magnetic field and outputs a value representing the current heading. The magnetic heading is calculated to the nearest 1° and returned as a number from 0 to 359. The NXT Magnetic Compass Sensor updates the heading 100 times per second. The Compass Sensor operates in two modes, Read mode and Calibrate mode. In Read mode, the current heading is calculated and returned each time to the NXT program executes a read command. In Calibrate mode the compass can be calibrated to compensate for externally generated magnetic field anomalies such as those that surround motors and batteries, thereby maintaining maximum accuracy.
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Great for RoboCup Jr competitions to detect the direction of the infrared RoboCup soccer ball.  The IRSeeker has an array of infrared detecors that give a 135 degree view and returns the direction and relative signal strength indicating the location of the soccer ball.  Your NXT robot can easily find the soccer ball and keep it in sight.  Combine the IRSeeker with the HiTechnic NXT Compass Sensor and the Infrared Electronic Ball to create a soccer playing robot that can find the ball and know which way to navigate to the goal.

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Measure the additional dimension of rotation with the NXT Gyro Sensor. This sensor that lets you accurately detect rotation for your NXT projects. The NXT Gyro Sensor returns the number of degrees per second of rotation as well as indicating the direction of rotation.  Measure +/- 360° per second and build robots that can balance, swing or perform other functions where measurement of rotation is essential.

Control LEGO R/C trains and other motorized LEGO sets with the HiTechnic IRLink Sensor for the Mindstorms NXT.  The IRLink uses Infrared signals to communicate with trains, Power Functions Motor controller and the Mindstorms RCX .  Control the speed and direction of up to three LEGO R/C trains (7897 and 7898) and other sets including the new Technic Motorized Bulldozer (8275) and the Monster Dino (4958).  The IRLink enables NXT programs to read values from RCX sensors and control motors connected to the RCX.

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Build your own sensors and experiments for the NXT or interface external devices with the HiTechnic Prototype Board.  The Prototype Board contains all the electronics and I2C code to communicate with the NXT.  Using the 14 x 16 hole prototype area on the board, you can build your own analog and digital designs and access them from your NXT program.  Programming is easy with the HiTechnic NXT-G Prototype programming block or use one of the other programming languages available to develop programs that can read five analog inputs and read and write six digital ports. 

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Experiment with building your own electronic circuits and connect then to the NXT with the HiTechnic NXT Solderless Prototype Board.  The Solderless Prototype Board is designed to plug into a solderless breadboard giving you a perfect platform to build your own NXT sensors and other designs.  With the breadboard you can use your electronic components over and over again.  The Solderless Prototype Board's built-in firmware controls I2C communications with the NXT and also gives you access to all analog and digital channels.  Programming is easy with the HiTechnic NXT-G Prototype programming block.  You can also use any of the other available programming languages to develop programs. 

The NXT Prototyping Kit provides a perfect base for you to start experimenting with your own electronic creations. The solderless breadboard included in the Prototyping Kit allows you to build circuits by simply pushing component leads into the board and completing your circuit with the kit's jumper wires.  

The NXT Prototyping Kit contains
1 NXT Solderless Prototype Board
1 solderless breadboard 165mm x 55mm (6.5 x 2.1 inch)
1 set of 70 jumper wires with pre-bent stripped ends in a range of convenient lengths

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Extend your Mindstorms® NXT robotic designs with the HiTechnic Extended Connector Cable Set.   Build creations with motors and sensors up to 3 feet (90cm) from the NXT!  For compact robots with motors and sensors close to the NXT, use the short cables to eliminate coils of excess wire looped around your model.

The set  contains one cable of each length (Cable length includes connectors)

• 12 cm (4.75") - extra short
• 16 cm (  6.3") - short
• 70 cm (27.6") - long
• 90 cm (35.4") - extra long

  Standard Mindstorms cable lengths are 20cm (8.5"), 35cm (14.5") and 50cm (18.5").