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Feature

Description

Note: Old NXT Ultrasonic 
sensor can not be used 
with PiStorms.
2.4” LCD touchscreen

Open programs and interact with the 
PiStorms with built in 2.4” LCD 
touchscreen.

Current Characteristics

Average current consumption of this device is about 5.0 mA.
PiStorms can deliver up to 1 Amp current per NXT Motor attached.
Drawing of excessively large current (such as incorrect motors or 
stalled motors) will result in internal shutdown until the situation is 
corrected.

I2C Bus address

Factory Default Address of Bank-A: 0x34
Factory Default Address of Bank-B: 0x36

 

PiStorms Software Downloads and Upgrades

PiStorms Software is available in three different forms!

1.

Pre-configured image - ready for use operating system image.

2.

Manual installation – when you already have data on your SD 
card.

3.

Developer Installation – for advanced users that wish to 
modify and share PiStorms software (GitHub). 

PiStorms software will run on a standard Raspbian Operating system 
(Jessie).

Download the pre-configured PiStorms image at

 

http://www.mindsensors.com/largefiles/pistorms.zip

, and write the 

image to an SD card.

To write this file to your SD card, please follow instructions from 
following page:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-
images/

Basically, you need to download and install Win32DiskImager utility 
on Windows, and 'Write' the SD card with pistorms iso file. 
be sure to unzip the downloaded zip file before you do this, (the zip 
contains  the .iso file) 

Copyright © 2016  mindsensors.com

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Summary of Contents for PiStorms

Page 1: ...rectly inserted into the PiStorms Doing so may result in permanent damage to the Raspberry Pi The PiStorms has green terminals to connect an external battery this battery will also supply power to attached Raspberry Pi You do not need to power the Raspberry Pi with a different power source however supplying external power to Raspberry Pi such as through USB is also ok NOTE Nominal PiStorms Power r...

Page 2: ...are compatible with LEGO mindstorms products PiStorms Frame Assembly Instructions Architecture Highlights PiStorms has two banks for motor and sensor ports Bank A and Bank B Each bank has its own I2C address Each bank has two EV3 motor ports and 2 sensor ports Total 4 motors and 4 sensor ports You can also connect NXT motors in the motor ports and supported NXT Sensors in the sensor ports PiStorms...

Page 3: ...last set encoder position Turning motor by degrees Move it in forward or reverse direction Turning motor by rotations 360 degrees makes one rotation Running operations asynchronously While a motor is running other operations may be performed Running motors for unlimited duration While motors are running you can also perform other operations NOTE When motors are set to run for Unlimited Duration th...

Page 4: ...ee different forms 1 Pre configured image ready for use operating system image 2 Manual installation when you already have data on your SD card 3 Developer Installation for advanced users that wish to modify and share PiStorms software GitHub PiStorms software will run on a standard Raspbian Operating system Jessie Download the pre configured PiStorms image at http www mindsensors com largefiles p...

Page 5: ...ake a note of the filename Login to your Pi and issue command cd home pi wget http www mindsensors com largefiles updater fileName use the fileName as you noted above This will download the latest release on your Pi unzip the release file and install as follows cd home pi tar zxvf fileName cd home pi PiStorms setup chmod x setup sh setup sh It will take a few minutes to install the software PiStor...

Page 6: ... Scratch Reference The PiStorms Scratch Interface Reference Guide can be found at the following address http www mindsensors com pdfs PiStorms 20 20ScratchProgrammingGuide pdf Copyright 2016 mindsensors com 6 6 ...

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