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Jul 9, 2009
NXT 2.0 vs. Original NXT: Which one to Buy?
1. First off, I will say that comparing NXT2 to NXT1 when "free building" projects of my own design using only the contents of one kit, I do prefer NXT2. Treads are a welcome addition, the Zamor (small ball) shooter is fun, the color sensor is a very nice upgrade from the light sensor, having two touch sensors is very useful and worth giving up the sound sensor for, and the software has some nice additions. Also, overall I think the mix of building parts is improved, and I find myself generally getting stuck less running out of parts and sizes that I need when limiting myself to one kit.
2. Considering building projects from instructions that you find so far on my site at nxtprograms.com and other web sites and books written for NXT1, unfortunately, most projects intended for NXT1 are not buildable as-is with only the NXT2 kit. The same will also be true for most projects designed for NXT2 if you have NXT1. If you are not limited to just the kit contents and can buy spare parts, this is somewhat less of an issue, but it is something important to be aware of. The kits are very similar overall, but several differences in parts availability and part counts make cross-building difficult. For example, the NXT1 kit has 11 15-beams and 4 13-beams, but NXT2 has 2 15-beams and 10 13-beams. A lot of my NXT1 projects have overall dimensions suited to 15-beams, but for NXT2, 13 is a better maximum dimension. Of course you can get more 15-beams and other parts in various ways, and I have posted some solutions here.
3. The NXT2 software is fully backwards-compatible with NXT1. You can load an NXT1 program (.rbt), and compile and download it to an NXT2 brick. This means that if you buy NXT2, you can use programs intended for NXT1 that you find on nxtprograms.com and other places, or any programs you wrote yourself for NXT1. This also means that if you have a mixture of NXT1 and NXT2, the NXT2 software can handle it all for you (including the sound sensor and other things not directly included in NXT2). However, note that if you connect an NXT1 brick to the NXT2 software and download a program, the NXT2 software will insist on upgrading the firmware of the brick to the NXT2 version.
4. The NXT1 software is not generally compatible with programs written for NXT2. Some very simple NXT2 programs can be loaded into NXT1 and compiled and uploaded to an NXT1 brick, but many cannot. Generally, you will be able to open and view the contents of NXT2 programs saved in the normal .rbt format in order to look at them, but don't expect to be able to use them. NXT2 also includes a new .rbtx format saved by the new Pack-and-Go feature which is very useful because it includes MyBlocks, graphics, and sound files needed by the program, and is compressed and thus much more compact for all programs, but this format is not readable by NXT1 at all.
Conclusion and Recommendations
If you don't have any NXT kit yet, and you can manage $360 (plus shipping and tax), the best thing to buy right now in my opinion is NXT2 plus the Education Resource Set (9648) from LEGO Education. NXT2 + 9648 is very close to being a superset of NXT1, so you have (almost) the best of both worlds. You will have NXT2 and everything it can do, you will have enough parts to build most models intended for NXT1 (from web/books/etc), and you will have a number of other cool misc. special parts as well. You will still be missing some NXT1 parts. Here is an analysis of the missing parts and suggestions for where to get them if necessary.
If you are new to NXT, want to spend less than $300, and want a set primarily to design and build your own projects, get NXT2.
Teachers and others that are dependent on existing instructions for NXT1 may want to stick with NXT1 (or the Education version of the NXT) for a while, then start saving money and putting together a plan for how to move to NXT2 later. Note that all of your NXT1 equipment will still be usable (bricks, motors, sensors, spare parts) when you transition/upgrade.
If you are new to NXT, have a budget of only $250 or so, want to be able to primarily build projects from existing instructions available on the web and books, and can't wait, NXT1 is still available and is still a great kit. Then if and when you get an NXT2 set later, you can upgrade the firmware on your old brick and switch to the NXT2 software, and then you will have a great two-kit combination that will allow lots of interesting projects, including NXT-to-NXT Bluetooth projects.
For fans of existing project instructions, though, please also consider that LEGO has said that the mindstorms.com web site will be posting (free) instructions for several NXT2 projects in addition to the four that come with the NXT2 set. I will also be posting NXT2 projects to nxtprograms.com when and as time allows, and many other NXT2 users will start to post their projects to other places such as NXTLOG, and the variety will grow over time!
24 comments:
- Rodzom said...
I would agree. NXT2 provides the most fun out of the box. I felt it was a bit easier to get into because it seems to have the better an more motivating projects in its software.
But still... since its currently unclear how long the NXT1 will be available, I'd advice those who are completely new to Mindstorms products to buy the NXT1 with all its background, literature and web-presence. It is still an extremely good choice.
The NXT2 is a nice addition if you already own the NXT1. To me both sets complement each other very well.
- Jul 9, 2009, 5:31:00 PM
- Matthias Paul Scholz said...
very good overview.
I agree with almost everything.
The parts I miss most in the NXT2 kit is the turntable (I use it a lot for my models as it gives stable and reliable joints, but it is hard to get) and the gears - in my opinion, the ones in the new kit are too limited in number and variety.
The useful proposal of a combined NXT 2 + education resource set will fulfill most needs, though.
- Jul 9, 2009, 8:14:00 PM
- Eric D. Burdo said...
Great comparison Dave. Thanks!
I have a couple of NXT1 kits. Plus a huge pile of extra parts... But, I still want the NXT2 kit. :)
- Jul 9, 2009, 11:42:00 PM
- roboleo said...
Very good analysis Dave, thanks…
I have a couple of NXT1 and I bought one NXT2.
Just a question on the bluetooth connection:
Can NXT1 communicate with a NXT2 and conversely?
- Jul 9, 2009, 11:49:00 PM
- Nathan said...
You won't have many problems if you already have NXT1 and you get NXT2, like me. Then you have a nice selection of parts, like the new color sensor, a turntable from NXT1, tank treads, a Zamor sphere shooter, and, most of all, 2 NXTs, 6 motors, 3 Touch sensors, 2 US sensors, a sound sensor and a light sensor, besides the already-mentioned Color Sensor.
My only problems with getting NXT2 are that I have to get another Rechargeably Battery pack and a different storage solution! My current box is already stuffed.
- Jul 10, 2009, 12:37:00 AM
- D-Robotics said...
That review helped me a lot! thanks! I have 1 nxt1 and want to get the nxt2 also. I only have 3 questions:
1. will the nxts be able to communicate via bluetooth or do i have to upgrade some firmware?
2. Can i update my nxt1's firmware for free after i get the nxt2?
3. If i want to make a remote controlled car (for example) can i write the program in nxt2's software and then load it on to each nxt? Or would the program be too complex for nxt 1 and i would have to update nxt1's firmware to get it to read nxt2's program?
- Jul 10, 2009, 12:52:00 AM
- NXTDude said...
i already received my NXT2 set thanks to amazon.com and I built the ball shooter which is really fun to control from my computer and works in almost real time, just a tiny tiny delay, the treads are great, the new tires are more street-like for flat surfaces, the new software is awesome, however, when I installed it, it automatically changed from the original NXT1 software, which had the instructions for the first Alpha Rex, the Robotic Arm, Tribot, and Scorpian, and I have NXT1 & NXT2 and wanted to build them their starter bots at the same time (ex. Robogator and Scorpian) I think though, that if I put the CD for the first set in my computer, I might be able to get the instructions, not sure though, if anyone can help me with this, that'd be great, all in all I agree with the getting NXT2 if you're new, it is really a great kit! Oh and one more thing, if anyone has tried the image editor on the NXT2 software, did you notice it freeze when you try to upload a picture, however, this might be because i have a Mac. Anyway, great article!
- Jul 10, 2009, 1:31:00 AM
- Dave Parker said...
Yes, NXT1 and NXT2 can communicate with Bluetooth. And if you did have some kind of compatibility problem, it is easy and free to upgrade both bricks to the NXT2 firmware (just connect to the NXT2 software and download a program and it will upgrade the firmware for you).
If you have mixed kits, you will generally want to upgrade all bricks and computers to the NXT2 firmware and software anyway, because the software has improved and the compatibility works better in that direction (NXT2 can read NXT1 stuff but not vice-versa).
- Jul 10, 2009, 2:37:00 AM
- Christopher R. Smith (Littlehorn) said...
NXTDude, You can find the NXT1 models at this link in PDF form. Enjoy!
- Jul 10, 2009, 3:09:00 AM
- NXTDude said...
Sweet, thanks a bunch Chris! That totally helped me out. Thanks! =) --NXTDude
- Jul 10, 2009, 4:54:00 AM
- Paul said...
What if you already have nxt1? Is it worth it to upgrade?
- Jul 10, 2009, 5:38:00 AM
- Robolab 2.9 said...
And just mentioning, that many people wonder if NXT1 and NXT2 use the same brick (hardware) - the answer is yes. They are identical, so you should not have Bluetooth issues, save for differences in firmware.
- Jul 11, 2009, 2:27:00 AM
- megamindstorm101 said...
Well I already have 2 NXT sets but I think I will get an NXT 2.0 set as well. Just one of them...for now :) I don't actually have an NXT 2.0 set but I plan on getting one sometime this year. I think if you are planning on having 2 NXT sets like most people who have NXTs always enjoy 2 sets :) Then an NXT1 and NXT2.0 should be a good choice. I like to get my extra parts from lego edu and from technic sets. Thanks for the comparison :)
- Jul 14, 2009, 6:42:00 AM
- Mark said...
Personally I think the contents of the sets is immaterial to me and I don't use the NXT-G software. I've enough LEGO already without wanting to buy the NXT2 set.
BUT... this does mean that NXT1 sets will be heavily discounted and a great bargain if you can find them! Yay!
- Jul 15, 2009, 7:52:00 AM
- LEGOmom said...
Has anyone compared the NXT2.0 software to the new education version? I have the newest education version w/ the datalogging and such. Is there anything in NXT2.0 which would make me want to have that software as well? Someone mentioned computer control of the robot?
Thanks for the write up, it was very helpful. I'd love to add an NXT2.0 kit to my kids 2 NXT1.0 kits but I don't see how I could talk DH into it!
- Jul 16, 2009, 10:40:00 AM
- Nathan said...
Any chance that anyone who has both kits could tell me which they like better and why?
- Jul 17, 2009, 3:18:00 AM
- Dave Parker said...
The "NXT-G 2.0" software from LEGO Education (not to be confused with the software from NXT 2.0 retail) has the data logging feature, which is not in the retail software. The 2.0 retail software added a PC to NXT Bluetooth remote control, image editor, sound editor, Pack-and-Go feature to bundle MyBlocks/sounds/graphics with a program file, in addition to support for the color sensor, and a couple of other minor things, none of which are in the LEGO Edu NXT-G 2.0. Both versions now have support for floating point (non-integer decimal) numbers.
- Jul 17, 2009, 7:30:00 AM
- Armagon said...
This post was over a week ago, so it may be that no one sees my comment, but:
If I have an NXT1 and want to upgrade to have all the parts that the NXT2 has, what do I need to get? Likewise, am I able to obtain a version of the updated software without buying the full kit?
- Jul 18, 2009, 1:20:00 AM
- Robolab 2.9 said...
Currently, if a parts expansion set is coming is unknown.
A software upgrade is - they say - not coming (source: NXTasy forums).
- Jul 18, 2009, 1:31:00 PM
- Armagon said...
Thank you, Richard.
- Jul 20, 2009, 1:50:00 AM
- anas9 said...
from what i have read here, the hardware of Both NXT1 and NXT2 are the same.
i need to buy two NXT kits soon.
question is, if both teams (students) will be sharing the parts. will there be differences between the two sets.
in others words, is it possible to upgrade the firmware of NXT1 to NXT2, and end up with two "Identical" NXTs plus more part options? will i be able to program the NXT1 with the new software once i upgrade it.
i hope my question is clear. thanks.
- Jan 25, 2010, 11:51:00 AM
- anas9 said...
Quoting David
"If you have mixed kits, you will generally want to upgrade all bricks and computers to the NXT2 firmware and software anyway, because the software has improved and the compatibility works better in that direction (NXT2 can read NXT1 stuff but not vice-versa)."
i guess answers my question.
i'm better off buying 1 NXT1 and 1 NX2. for more pieces.
- Jan 25, 2010, 12:56:00 PM
- Modern SW Development said...
When you say the NXT2.0 s/w is different, are you referring to the firmware or the visual programming IDE ?
I have a small question if anyone can answer - is the NXT (1.0) brick different in hardware than the NXT2.0 brick? If not can I upgrade my NXT1.0 firmware to be compatible with 2.0 ?
- Mar 2, 2010, 10:45:00 AM
- iasimov said...
i plan to buy 1 education base set (9797)+ 1 education resource set (9695) as my first kit.
shall i stick to it or replace education base set with retail 2.0?
- Dec 28, 2010, 3:50:00 AM


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Dr. Dodd introduced Mrs. Kenneth. Girard, director of the War Fund for the county; Mrs. E."Freeman Miller, chairman of the Freeport Red-Cross branch; Mm. Richard G. McCKeshey, treasurer; Mrs. Howard B. Pehl, of the^executive^om-mittcef ™Mrs. Roy* R, that these- men so-6ene6t. It *sj_chatrman of/publlcity an; the-com-po) itical activitiea,^I-do criticize mittee. fT'@r^iaIega^ the^^publpc George re theZvotera believe the for commerce; and induatqp, members to be he hao^etr a? goal-4>L $7*001 political angels. I" — not believe that^divislonv Rober^/^. Patter-thrre was anything angelic about son* who haa charge' of theatres, Ihe appointment of the present requested 150 volunteer,workers. Superintendent of Highways or I Russell E. Hotalmg, chairman of Highways or of the Building In- organizations, announced letters later salary in- had been -gent to 80 village * : spector, with a ciease. * "TAis year's - our- villag* government by the Home Rule Party has been a sor- ,ry spectacle. It haa been featur-ed by personal remarks or at-tacks by the 'Party* spokesman, by floundering on important ,, matters, and finally by Internal dissension. The high spots in* elude the attack on the Republl- Party and on Village Clerk groups, and Cecil MaHood Albert Price; 99th, Lionel Gillea- William ^ Marvin, 166th» Mrs/Robert l*wis; f?6th, Benjamin M, Asch and George Obey; 179th; Mre, Robert Mun-kelt, and 180th, William Farren. Mr. Roberts added that every-thing was set to start the cam-paign at once. Red Cross motion pictures emphasizing some of the points of the drive were shown. fh Its chxb house. George ton Levy will act as exalted ru-ler, Clarence A. Edwards as lea-ding knight, Peter Stephen Beck aa loyal knight, Worden S. Winne as lecturing knjght, Gco. M. Bird as esquire, Judge George S. Johnson as chaplain and other past exalted rulers as trustees. It will be the Grot night for the nomination of omccrs. GERRY JENKINS IN SOUTH Miss Gcraldine Jenkins, of 1 East ave., is visiting her sister Mrs. Boyd A. Babbitt, whose husband is a- yeoman Rrst class, at the Naval base at Miami, Fla. AH expect to come north shortly^ C. Nomim kutktt to Supply can administration of, reporting for the eight Junior Red Crosa units, predicted they would do a good job, and said each had set its own goal. Henry B. Roberta, chairman of the house-tb?houae canvasa, an-nounced that F. Jack Godfrey Kad consented to asaist him In the work. He named^ the leaders of the 15th districts Into which the village has been divided. aa follows: " Eighth, Miss Ruth Brisbane; Ninth, Mrs,. Guy Russell; 10th, William Nolan; ilth, Mrs. Her? Marvin; the Judge : Jphnwq\epigQ(le "and the 'Ornamental' Zoning Board o* Appeals. j@r@t of .these has; the moat %^ 3 12th Thomaa CMwtoa Mc< The Rev. Dr. C. Norman Bart- . professor of theology and the English Bible *t the Nation-al Bible Institute, New York, is to bd the interim pastor of the First Baptist Church, pending the selection of a minister to suc-ceed the Rev. Dr. J. Gordon Hynes, who left this week to take charge of the First Baptist Church, Auburn; N. Y. He will preach for the Rrst time Sunday morninj;* Bartlett has been associat-ed with the institute eight years. Prior to that he was for ,a similar period pastor of the First Baptist Church, Andover, Mass. Some years ago he was minister of the Greene Avenue Baptist Churdh, Brooklyn* He is a graduate of Colegate University and Gordon College; ! . : . . Dr. Hynes, who had been pas* tor ?of the local church since , 1930, preached his fare- "Well sermon Sunday morning, when he also baptized twelve candidates, to whom he extended the right hand of fellowship aft* er the Lord's Supper. Another group, who joined by letter, also received the right hand of fellow-ship. Dr. tlynes' Anal sermon was on "The Christian Fellowship." H? took a his text First John ?V:7 and 8: "Beloved let us love on? another: for love Is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God and knowest God. He that loveth not, knoweth hot God; for God is love.*' congregation was one of the largest in the history of the church. , (CohKnUed on Page Q) chairmanship of the committee and was at work al-ready meeting with pronounced success m obtaining funds for the campaign. Also on the com-mittee are Dr. Newton, Robert S. Preyer, chairman of the cam-paign* committee, and Oeo. W^ Goeller, publicity chairman. District leaders, who have_beeq circulating the Ryan and Wood nominating petitions, will report on the progress they arc making at the meeting. In a sigAed statement recently given to th* papers Douglas E. Trayer, among other charges lev-eled at the Home Rule Party, included these two statements." "To think that only a year ago nine Freeport citizens organized to giveJFreeport a real Indepen-dent polltical-^part," and ."Stu-prganlzcr- of Jhe ' year ago/^ "Both statements -are^erTrbnZT our," said Mr. Preyer, "in the sense that the Home Rule Par-ty was not organized last year. It is true that both amliated themselves with the party last year, but apparently they arc still ignorant of the fact that the Home pul<L.B%rty was organizeo in 1938, and presented a full slate of candidatea In the 1939. elec-tion. All of the men who were active In the organization in those years are still members, with two exceptions. Dr. George A. 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History, Activities
John A. Kelleher, a special
agent of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation outlined the history
of the organization and listed
some of its accomplishments in a
talk to the members of William
Clinton Story-Post, A.L., Friday
might in the dugout.
He said the F.B.I, was organ-'
ized in 1924 following the Tea-pot
Dome scandal. He spokcr of
the apprehension and conviction
o* violators of the Selective Ser-vice
Act and gave in detail the
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Paul A. Weill, membership offi-cer,
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Thanks were extended to Dr.
John W. Dodd and Cecil H.
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committee, which con-ducted
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Past Commander Ernest Hcn-nessy
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March 3, at which William W.
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William N. Lewis of Floral
Park has promised to attend.
George V. Maurer, chairman of
the canes committee, reported}
the receipts of 125 canes and four
pairs of crutches for the use of
servicemen convalescing in hos-.
pitals. Secon^ Division Com-mander
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Long Beach, spoke.
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Our 2013 award winner Denard Span covers a lot of ground in the Twins outfield and is one of the best leadoff hitters in the game. He works to be as versatile and helpful in the community as he is on the field.
Denard supports and serves as spokesman for the Twins Reviving Baseball in the Inner Cities program, a Major League Baseball youth baseball and softball program that the Twins Community Fund administers at Minneapolis and St. Paul Parks. Denard helps to promote playing baseball and softball and serves as a role model for the youth in the program.
Denard helps to raise funds for the RBI program by hosting a bowling tournament that benefits Friends of St. Paul Baseball and the Twins Community Fund. Twins and Pins began in 2010 and Denard invites his teammates to bowl with sponsors and supporters.
Span also visits with youth from the baseball and softball leagues at Twins games where they get autographs and tickets to stay to watch the game.
Past Winners:
Our 2013 award winner Roy Smalley grew-up in a baseball family. After a long career in baseball, he strives to make sure disabled and less-fortunate youth have the same opportunities he did.
Roy, now a financial advisor and television broadcaster, was recently named President of the Board of Directors of Pitch In For Baseball, an organization dedicated to spreading America's pastime to kids all over the world. Pitch In For Baseball collects and delivers new and gently-used youth baseball and softball equipment to underserved communities in the Upper Midwest and around the globe.
Roy also lends his time and talents to Special Olympics, a sports organization for disabled individuals. Roy has been the Executive Director of the Special Olympic World Games and has helped to create awareness and funds for the organization.
In addition, Roy makes himself available to local nonprofit organizations, such as the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities to help them raise funds. He also partners with FS North to recognize and assist military members and their families.
Roy also spends countless hours signing autographs at TwinsFest and Autograph Party, helping to raise more than $280,000 for the Twins Community Fund.
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Since September 2007, federal law has required that every new domestic passenger vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of 10,000 pounds be factory-equipped with a tire-pressure-monitoring system (TPMS). The legislation requires that the system indicate when one or more tires has deflated beyond a preset threshold, usually 25 percent below the manufacturer-recommended pressure.
This mandate grew out of the Transportation Recall Enhancement, Accountability, and Documentation (TREAD) Act, which passed in November 2000. TREAD was the result of congressional hearings prompted by a spate of rollover accidents involving Ford Explorers equipped with certain Firestone tires.
There are two types of TPMS: direct and indirect. Indirect systems use the vehicle's wheel sensors to compare the turning circumference of each tire with that of the other three. These systems aren't very accurate and will not issue a warning if all four tires lose air equally, as might happen when outside temperatures drop. For these reasons, indirect systems have mostly fallen out of use.
Direct systems, such as the ones used in Corvettes, use sensors fitted inside the tire's air chamber, where they read pressure directly. The C4 system uses a transmitting wheel sensor held in place by large band clamp. Each sensor has a separate identification color and frequency, which is transmitted as the wheel turns. The movement of the wheel provides the energy necessary to power the transmitter. If the tire pressure drops below 25 psi, the sensor stops transmitting to the receiver, and the "Service LTPWS" lamp illuminates. The sensors don't require batteries, and the receivers don't need to be reprogrammed.
The C5 and C6 systems use a transmitting wheel sensor attached to the tire's valve stem. A separate sensor/transmitter in each wheel shares its receiver with the keyless entry system. The receiver is programmed at the factory to recognize which sensor is at each wheel location. If the tires are rotated, a sensor is replaced, or the system simply loses its calibration, a warning light will illuminate in the instrument panel. At this point, the receiver must be reprogrammed.
Fortunately, reprogramming the receiver on a C5 or C6 is a simple task you can perform anywhere, whether at home or at the track. The C5 system can be reprogrammed using either a strong magnet or a wheel-sensor-reprogramming tool; the C6 system requires the latter method.
Follow along now as we cover the reprogramming procedure for both cars.
Special thanks to Gerhard Bunge at Eckler's Corvette Parts.
If you rotate your tires or replace a wheel sensor, your tire-pressure-monitoring sensors will need to be reprogrammed. The following is a step-by-step procedure for reprogramming the C5 sensors:
1. Let the vehicle sit for two minutes; then turn the ignition on.
2. Press the "Reset" button to clear any Instrument Panel Cluster (IPC) warning messages.
3. Press and release the "Options" button on the Driver's Information Center (DIC) and scroll through the display options until the IPC display is blank.
4. Press and hold the DIC "Reset" button for 3 seconds.
5. Press the "Options" button again until the "Tire Training" message appears.
6. Press the "Reset" button until the "Learn Left Front Tire" message appears on the IPC.
7. Place a large magnet over the left front valve stem. The horn will sound, indicating the left front TPMS sensor is programmed. If this takes more than 15 seconds, pull the magnet back and try again. If the procedure fails after three tries, you'll need to start the sequence over from the beginning. GM sells a special U-shaped magnet specifically for this job (PN J41760), but a large speaker magnet will usually work just as well.


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Oct 2, 2006
Some new NXT videos and Building Instructions
Moving Crates
Over on Flickr.com, someone has posted the steps for a new bot - find step 1 here.
5 comments:
- Brian Davis said...
The NXT Tank is by Joe Meno, the main organizer for BrickFest this year. The nice thin gs about this design is it uses just two (currently availible) sets in addition to the NXT kit; the range is about 2.5 feet, and he's working in improving the design :-).
the crate-carrying NXTbot is from the SMART "Brickheap" event recently held. More information in a thread on LUGNET:
Brian Davis
- Oct 3, 2006, 12:22:00 AM
- Joe Meno said...
Yeah, it's me,
and I have a really simple program for it set up - will have video up in a day or so.
Am also trying to minimize extra set use on the model - I used the Viking Mobile Artillery set and the EXO-Force Mobile Defense Tank for the gun and tracks, respectively. There have been some design enhancements already, mostly cosmetic.
Converting to a wheel drive will eliminate the Mobile Defence tank, and thinking about revising the gun to just NXT parts.
Thanks for noticing me:-)
Joe Meno
- Oct 3, 2006, 1:30:00 AM
- Christopher R. Smith (Littlehorn) said...
Joe, Nice stuff!
I also purchased the #7706 Mobile Defense Tank...for the treads and Orange-ness...
I have created some interesting compare points and a set review with the RIS treads and NXT elements. I will be posting the info this week. Some neat things about weight...!
- Oct 3, 2006, 4:43:00 AM
- JT said...
That crate bot was realy amazing. It seemed pretty complex. You could put it to some real good use with it's abillaty, although it did hit a few snags.
- Oct 3, 2006, 7:06:00 AM
- Brian Davis said...
Gus Janssen (the person responsible for that "forklift") and his friemnds out in Seattle have done some amazing stuff. Take a look at their Cooperative Crate Contraption:
Note specificly the dumping forklift. It will be very interesting seeing what we can do with the significantly larger sensor suite of the NXT on projects like this, not to mention BT "cooperation" on large set-ups. I've got lots of ideas (more than time, at the moment).
Brian Davis
- Oct 3, 2006, 12:43:00 PM


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Eurogamer: Does the console always need to be connected to the internet?
Shuhei Yoshida: You can play offline, but you may want to keep it connected. The system has the low-power mode - I don't know the official term - that the main system is shut down but the subsystem is awake. Downloading or updating or you can wake it up using either the tablet, smartphone or PS Vita.
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Look up the RFCs and IEEE standards on it which will give you all the knowledge you need to know...?
Here's one http://ieeexplore.ie...Emetadata&pos=0
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You don't learn (and actually understand) that stuff in "extreme" detail in a short amount of time. It's like saying you want to know physical chemistry but don't want to get bogged down with all those orbital shapes and baryons and stuff. To get a solid understanding is going to take some real work so maybe you want to scale back a bit.
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Kinda the opposite of RTFM: the FM tells you how it's supposed to work and how to build an implementation. It doesn't tell you why an implementation is weak (if it did, we'd never have used it). I went for more of a "read the bug reports and patch notes" recommendation.
It sounds more like you don't really care about how or why WEP is weak - that's going to be a discussion for math or comp-sci nerds who like to use lots of letters and symbols when they talk about things. You sound like you're more interested in the steps necessary to exploit a vulnerability.
Consider two imaginary descriptions of a weakness in some piece of cryptographic software:
- Algorithm X has a bias in byte 3 that makes it 1/2^384 % more likely to return 0 than any other a-bit sequence. You can use that to discover 1 bit of key information in time 2^56 with 95% probability. (1.5 assloads of math and stats follow here. Lots of brackets and letters)
- Capture 300,000 packets, then compute byte 5 + byte 9 xor byte 3 for each packet. Count how many times you get 1, 2,3,4,5,… as a result of that calculation and store the the number of times for each value. If a value occurs twice as often as any other number then there is a 95% chance that bit 4 of that value is bit #7 in the key. if you get { 1= 953, 2=888, 3=1,965, 3=1,001, 4=920… } then there's a good chance that the 7th bit in the key is 0 (because 3 occurs most often, 3dec = 0b00000011, so bit #4 is 0, so bit #7 of the key is probably 0). You can use this new information about the key + new packets + different calculations to determine the value of more bits in the key.
The first answer is what you'll get out of comp-sci text books and papers. It's the "real understanding" of why WEP is weak. You will see bits of the second in research papers but its typically a mathematical description rather than an algorithm. If you're not a huge math nerd it's going to be somewhat difficult to convert that into a useful algorithm. On the plus side, you know why those algorithms work.
If you prefer the second kind of answer then you're probably best off just reading the source code for a tool like aircrack-ng or metasploit. It won't give you an understanding about why the code works, but you will understand how to use it. The second is saying "you can perform a statistical attack" but it hand-waves passed the details about why particular data is used or exactly how it reveals particular bits of key information (why byte 5+9 and not 7+6? why do we get the bit in the key at postion 7 instead of 3? why do we need 300k packets and not 3m or 300?). If you don't really care why it works then reading the source code is the quickest way to enlightenment.


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"But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way."
"Then," said Yossarian, "I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?" —Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Last November 29, American Airlines declared bankruptcy under Chapter 11, the provision of the bankruptcy code that allows a corporation to stiff its creditors, break contracts, and keep operating under the supervision of a judge. This maneuver, politely termed a "reorganization," ends with the corporation exiting bankruptcy cleansed of old debts. In opting for Chapter 11, American joined every other major airline, including Delta, Northwest, United, and US Airways, which has been in and out of Chapter 11 twice since 2002. No fewer than 189 airlines have declared bankruptcy since 1990. As the sole large carrier that had not gone bankrupt, American missed out on savings available to its rivals and thus was increasingly uncompetitive.
Bankruptcy is intended to give a fresh start to persons and enterprises overwhelmed by creditors. In the case of American (like other airlines before it), the main "creditors" are its employees. The costs of American's bankruptcy will be borne mainly by its workers and secondarily by taxpayers. The contracts being broken are union contracts and legal promises to honor pension obligations. American is laying off 13,000 workers, slashing wages, and reducing its annual pension contribution from $97 million to $6.5 million. The airline hopes to stick the federal Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation with liability for much of the $6.5 billion that it owes its workers and retirees.
This national indulgence for corporate bankruptcy has a certain logic. The Wall Street Journal editorial page recently termed bankruptcy "one of the better ways in which American capitalism encourages risk-taking," and that is the prevailing view. Thanks to Chapter 11, a potentially viable insolvent enterprise is given a fresh start as a going concern, rather than being cannibalized for the benefit of its creditors.
However, what's good for corporate capitalism is evidently too good for the rest of us. Suppose everyone felt that way?
Wall Street has convinced lawmakers that relief for the masses, even in a deflationary economic emergency, would not only inflict unacceptable costs to bank balance sheets; it would also promote "moral hazard"—the economist's term for rewarding and thereby inviting improvident behavior. Thanks to a revision in the bankruptcy law passed in 2005 and signed by President George W. Bush after nearly a decade of furious lobbying by the credit-card industry and the banks, consumers generally face far more onerous bankruptcy terms than do corporations.
The housing collapse, depressing trillions of dollars of consumer assets, is the single biggest drag on the recovery. But underwater mortgage holders, unlike submerged corporations, have never been eligible for bankruptcy relief. Homeowners are explicitly prohibited from using the bankruptcy code to reduce the amount of the mortgage to the present value of the house or to a monthly payment that could enable them to keep their home.
The selective privileges of bankruptcy display yet another facet of the convenient concept of corporate personhood. Some persons are evidently more equal than others. The gross disparity in the way that bankruptcy law treats corporate persons and actual people is only one of multiple double standards that increasingly define our age.
Petty felons and 200,000 small-time drug users do prison time, while corporate criminals whose frauds cost the rest of the economy trillions of dollars are permitted to settle civil suits for small fines, with shareholders bearing the expenses. Ordinary families pay tax at a higher rate than billionaires. When fracking contaminates a property and makes a home uninhabitable, the homeowner rather than the natural-gas company suffers the loss. The mother of all double standards is taxpayer aid and Federal Reserve advances—running into the trillions of dollars—that went to the banks that caused the collapse, while the bankers avoided prosecution, and the rest of the society got to eat austerity.
Linking all of these disparities between citizens and corporations is the political power of a new American plutocracy. Until our politics connects these dots and citizens start resisting, the financial elite will rule. Despite the Occupy movement, most regular people have yet to experience the sudden enlightenment of Captain Yossarian, who decided, unpatriotically, that he didn't want to die. In the face of economic pillaging, we are behaving like damned fools.
Bankruptcy privileges for the elite have been with us for centuries. On October 29, 1692, Daniel Defoe, merchant, pamphleteer, and the future best-selling author of Robinson Crusoe, was committed to London's King's Bench Prison because he could not pay debts that totaled some 17,000 pounds. Before Defoe was declared bankrupt, his far-flung ventures had included underwriting marine insurance, importing wine from Portugal, buying a diving bell to search for buried treasure, and investing in 70 civet cats whose musk secretions were prized for the manufacture of perfume.
In that era, there was no Chapter 11. Bankrupts like Defoe ended up in debtors prison, an institution that would persist well into the 19th century. Typically, creditors could obtain a writ of seizure of the debtor's assets (historians record that Defoe's civet cats were taken by the sheriff's men); if the assets were insufficient to settle the debt, another writ would send the bankrupt to prison, from which he could win release only by negotiating a deal with his creditors. Defoe had no fewer than 140 creditors. However, he managed to negotiate his freedom by February 1693, though he dodged debt collectors for the next decade. His misadventures later informed Robinson Crusoe, whose fictional protagonist faces financial ruin as "an overseas trader" and lands bankrupt in prison four times, deeply in "remorse at having ruined his loyal and loving wife."
It gradually dawned on enlightened opinion that putting debtors in prison might be economically irrational. Once behind bars, a debtor stripped of his remaining assets had no means of resuming productive economic life, much less satisfying his debts. In this insight was the germ of Chapter 11.
Defoe soon became England's leading crusader for bankruptcy reform. In 1697, he published the book-length Essay upon Projects, in which he proposed a novel solution. Rather than leaving the debtor to the mercy of his creditors, a "Court of Inquiries" could tally the bankrupt's assets, allocate them to creditors at so many pence in the pound, and leave the debtor with enough money to carry on his business. This legal action, undertaken with the full cooperation of the debtor, would result in the full "discharge" of any remaining obligation to creditors.
London was suffering from the aftermath of bubonic plague and the costs of Britain's recent wars with Spain. Debtors prisons were overflowing, not only with sundry speculators and deadbeats but also with solid businessmen whose enterprises had been ruined by general economic dislocations. In 1705, with the support of Queen Anne's ministers, Parliament took up a reform act, introducing for the first time the concept of discharge.
The legislation, however, was aimed at relief for merchants. Ordinary citizens, fraudulent or just unlucky, could rot in jail. Discharge required the consent of four-fifths of the creditors. When the law was passed in 1706, Defoe himself could not qualify, and he fled to Scotland. Nonetheless, an important concept had been invented. A bankrupt merchant could settle his debts at less than the full sum owed, avoid going to prison, and resume economic life with his debts considered legally discharged. From the outset, there was a double standard of relief for capitalists, but not for the hoi polloi.
Almost a century later, the same scenario played out in the fledgling American republic. After the War of Independence came the financial crash of the 1790s. Robert Morris, the leading financier of the Revolutionary War but later a ruined speculator, was in jail, as was James Wilson, an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. When Congress enacted a temporary bankruptcy law in 1800, it was much in the spirit of the British Act of 1706, providing relief and discharge only for commercial debtors owing at least $1,000, a threshold that excluded ordinary artisans and farmers. When the immediate economic crisis passed, the law was repealed.
Not until 1898 did Congress enact a general and permanent federal bankruptcy statute. It would be amended several times, with oscillating solicitude for debtors and creditors. In the depressed 1930s, Congress added the forerunner of the current Chapter 11 as well as relief for farmers. By the 1980s, the use of Chapter 11 was becoming more frequent, especially in formerly regulated industries that desired to shed wage and pension costs and in companies ruined by hostile takeovers or other leveraged buyouts.
There is indeed a moral-hazard problem, it turns out, but it lies in the increasingly promiscuous use of corporate bankruptcy. The vaunted economic efficiency of Chapter 11 depends on a tacit balancing act between the expedient temptation to blow off your debts and the lingering shame attached to "going bankrupt." If Chapter 11 becomes too common, it ceases to be efficient because it frightens off investors. The supposed shifting of norms, in which people no longer feared the stigma of bankruptcy, was the argument made by bankers in the legislative battle to make bankruptcy less available to ordinary citizens. It was an epic case of corporate America admonishing the citizenry to do as I say, not as I do.
The airline industry is only the extreme case. In the past two decades, the roster of companies that declared bankruptcy includes Enron, WorldCom, Global Crossing, Adelphia, General Motors, Chrysler, Delphi, Kmart, and LTV Steel, not to mention several major financial houses.
Private-equity companies routinely use Chapter 11 after they bleed dry the operating companies they acquire, load them up with debt, extract capital, and then declare that debts unfortunately exceed assets. Once out of bankruptcy, the company can be sold for more profit. Bain Capital, Mitt Romney's firm, pocketed hundreds of millions of dollars as special dividends from such companies as KB Toys, Dade Behring, Ampad, GS Technologies, and Stage Stores, all of which subsequently filed for bankruptcy. In industries such as steel, airlines, and autos, where good union contracts were once common, one of the biggest appeals of a Chapter 11 reorganization is that contractual pension and retiree health obligations can be swept aside.
In Chapter 11, even the executives who drove a company into the ground get a second chance. Post-bankruptcy, American Airlines' president, Tom Horton, was promoted to CEO. And why not? Declaring bankruptcy will save American a small fortune. American, while in bankruptcy, has nonetheless found the money to pay a firm $525,000 a month to advise it on labor cuts. The firm is Bain Capital.
In the late 1990s, the financial industry concluded that what was available to corporations was too good for the common people. The ease of bankruptcy, supposedly, was inviting consumers to run up credit-card debt and other forms of profligate consumption. The Chamber of Commerce, Business Roundtable, conservative think tanks, and, above all, bankers lined up behind bankruptcy "reform." Congress passed a harsh measure in 2000, but it was pocket-vetoed by President Bill Clinton.
Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren came to national prominence with her research demonstrating that the charge of frivolous consumer bankruptcies was a red herring. As she demonstrated, most consumer bankruptcies were in fact driven by medical bills that overwhelmed family resources or by other unforeseen financial calamities such as the death or disability of a breadwinner or the breakup of a marriage. She testified in 2005 that during the eight years that the financial industry was promoting a harsher consumer bankruptcy law, the number of bankruptcy filings actually increased a modest 17 percent, while credit-card profits went up 163 percent to $30.2 billion.
With the accession of President George W. Bush and Republican control of Congress in 2001, the banking industry increased its efforts to tilt the bankruptcy code against consumers, spending about $100 million in lobbying over eight years. In 2005, Bush signed the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act. Its key provisions made it more difficult for consumers to file under Chapter 7, under which most debts are paid out of only existing assets and then forgiven, and compelled more people to file under Chapter 13, which requires a partial repayment plan over three to five years. The act introduced for the first time a means test, in which only debtors with income below the state's median are exempt from the more onerous provisions of the law. If a citizen has above-median income, there is a "presumption" of abuse, and future income is partly attached in order to satisfy past creditor claims, no matter what the circumstances. Many states have a "homestead exemption" protecting an owner-occupied home, up to a dollar limit, from creditor claims. This, too, is overridden by the 2005 federal act.
In promoting the law, financial executives testified that if losses could be reduced, savings would be passed along to the public in the form of lower interest rates. But after the law passed, the credit-card industry increased its efforts to market high-interest-rate credit cards to consumers, including those with poor credit ratings. Adding insult to injury, the industry invented new fees. Thanks to the "reform," when overburdened consumers did go broke, credit-card companies now had far more latitude to squeeze them for repayment.
Testifying against the bill, Elizabeth Warren warned:
Women trying to collect alimony or child support will more often be forced to compete with credit-card companies that can have more of their debts declared non--dischargeable. All these provisions apply whether a person earns $20,000 a year or $200,000 a year.
But the means test as written has another, more basic problem: It treats all families alike. It assumes that everyone is in bankruptcy for the same reason—too much unnecessary spending. A family driven to bankruptcy by the increased costs of caring for an elderly parent with Alzheimer's disease is treated the same as someone who maxed out his credit cards at a casino. A person who had a heart attack is treated the same as someone who had a spending spree at the shopping mall. A mother who works two jobs and who cannot manage the prescription drugs needed for a child with diabetes is treated the same as someone who charged a bunch of credit cards with only a vague intent to repay. A person cheated by a subprime mortgage lender and lied to by a credit-counseling agency is treated the same as a person who gamed the system in every possible way.
At bottom, this trend was a rendezvous between flat or falling wages and banks making it ever easier for consumers to go more deeply into debt. Inflated assets—which turned out to be a bubble—were advertised as a substitute for income. Are your earnings down? Just borrow against your home. Between 1989 and 2004, credit-card debt tripled, to $800 billion, while earnings stagnated. Homeowners borrowed trillions more against the supposed value of their home. The moral vocabulary of debt is filled with denunciations about improvident borrowers, but who ever heard of an improvident lender? Yet it was the recklessness of banks that caused the financial collapse.
The financial crash that began rumbling in 2007 had numerous consequences, but in many ways the most durable and destructive one is the continuing undertow of the housing collapse. The collapse began with a housing bubble pumped up by subprime mortgages. It is being prolonged by the loss of several trillion dollars in household assets representing the collapse of housing prices. With about one homeowner in five holding a mortgage that exceeds the value of the house, and more than a million homeowners defaulting every year, the result is forced sales into a depressed housing market. This puts further downward pressure on prices, prolonging and deepening a classic deflationary spiral.
The housing deflation is such a widely recognized cause of the persistent economic slump that even the Federal Reserve has publicly criticized the Obama administration for its feeble response to the housing/mortgage crisis. Bill Dudley, president of the New York Federal Reserve, recently told a bankers' convention, "The ongoing weakness in housing has made it more difficult to achieve a vigorous economic recovery. With additional housing-policy interventions, we could achieve a better set of economic outcomes."
The administration's housing policy has been built on two programs of shallow relief, both intended to avoid direct reduction in principal owed and both widely dismissed as failures. The first, the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP), gives mortgage servicers bonus payments for voluntarily reducing monthly payments. It has helped fewer than one underwater homeowner in ten, and as many as half of those who get HAMP relief go right back into default. The program is a well-documented bureaucratic nightmare for the homeowner. The second, more recent program, known as HARP, for Home Affordable Refinance Program, allows moderately underwater homeowners to refinance mortgages held by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as long as the debt is not more than 125 percent of the value of the home. But HARP does not reduce the principal owed, and its terms exclude those most in need of relief. The much-touted legal deal announced February 1, supposedly worth $26 billion, would actually give homeowners about $3 billion in mortgage write-downs (the rest is accounting changes and counseling outlays), compared to a $700 billion gap between the market value of homes and the mortgages against them.
The more straightforward solution, analogous to a corporate Chapter 11, would be to give a bankruptcy judge the power to adjust the outstanding mortgage debt. When congressional progressives proposed this as part of the legislation creating HAMP, Wall Street fiercely resisted. Several Democrats as well as nearly all Republicans ended up voting against it. Direct relief, from the perspective of the financial industry and its allies in the Treasury, is odious because it would require banks to acknowledge the actual, as opposed to nominal, condition of their balance sheets.
So while corporations continue to get a fresh start under Chapter 11, the aftermath of the financial crisis continues to sandbag millions of homeowners and the economy as a whole. This double standard is not just a question of fairness. The selective relief for corporations and banks, but not for the 99 percent, is killing the recovery. None of this will change until the citizenry builds a politics that demands a single standard.
This piece draws on the themes of a book that Robert Kuttner is completing for Knopf, titled Debtors Prison.
Mon, 2012-03-19 12:02
You should acknowledge, though, that a corporation being cannibalized by creditors ceases to exist. A person files Chapter 7 and wakes up the morning with little worse than a trashed credit rating.
Also, Chapter 7 remains a fairly simple process for individuals, notwithstanding the lobbying blitz that led to the 2005 "reforms". Bottom line is that your comparison of corporate and individual bankruptcy is not apples to apples.
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Mon, 2012-03-19 14:54
" . . . the bankruptcy law passed in 2005 and signed by President George W. Bush after nearly a decade of furious lobbying by the credit-card industry and the banks, . . ."
A law cosponsored by Tom Carper (D-DE) and voted for by Joe Biden (um, D-DE), Harry Reid (D-NV), Dan Inouye (D-HI), Luis Salazar (D-CO), Max Baucus (D-MT), etc.
Mon, 2012-03-19 17:20
We may have double standards, but this is a poor, misdirected, and misleading argument that can't be excused by naivete ... this author is far too articulate and well informed for that.
The AMR corporation *did* get wiped out in this bankruptcy ... I was a shareholder (i.e., owner) and lost my whole investment. Any idea that the corporation survived this event is pure fiction ... and what's left is up to the courts and receivers to salvage for the benefit of all others holding the bag.
Claiming that the employees are somehow victims is duplicitous, too ... they had more of a hand in the demise of AMR than most parties. I worry for them ... and like a lot of them a lot. I hope for the best, but I know they're not forced to work at AMR, and they're not weeping for my lost investment.
Simple fact: real people going through bankruptcy do stiff their creditors and wake up the next morning ... investors (i.e., owners) get wiped out and never see their hard earned dollars again. *That's* the salient comparison.
The upshot? This author is cynically fanning the flames of populist anti-corporateness. Please invite him to be more realistic and even handed.
Sat, 2012-03-24 14:19
Dear mere oblivion -- the fact is that the 2005 bill was sponsored and pushed by conservative interests, and signed into law by a conservative president. End of story.
And Dapper Dude -- investment is a risk. No one had a gun to your head. You are correct, no one is weeping for you.
I was CEO of a high-tech startup. It was entirely self-financed for the entire life of the company. When finally we were forced to throw in the towel, I was informed by US Bank that its friendly local VP, loving grandmother and kind soul, had stuck me with signing an open guarantee that applied not only to the bank loan I paid back but another I took out a year later. $50,000. That's a lot of personal capital to hand over when you don't have it or the means at hand to make it. I was going to take bankruptcy -- it would have been under Chapter 7 -- but the bank threatened to blacken my reputation as a CEO, damaging my prospects for earning a living well into the future. How nice that its bill-collector showed up via telephone, a friendly man who arranged for me to make payments -- just like Chapter 13. (I didn't recognize it at the time, being a novice at bankruptcy, unlike the big banks themselves (including US Bank) who were sharpies when their necks were on the block. It took me almost 10 years to clear that debt which compelled me to make a lot of bad decisions along the way. I don't fault the debt collector, he was only doing his pound-of-flesh job, but I will never, ever do business with US Bank again, an enemy despite all its "we have your back" propaganda of the unwary entrepreneur. I don't see US Bank or its truly mean internal bullies contrite about having pillaged the US Treasury. I don't care what the apologist commenters have to say about usury and the virtual debtors prison so many of us are forced to inhabit. The bankruptcy law like the tax law and the investment law and the budgetary process is just one more face of the class war that the wealthy have been waging on the rest of us. I feel in my bones that their time has come, and I don't just mean the reelection of Obama, who is comfortable with a Wall Street ready to stab him in the back. I mean a much stronger reaction, the likes of which we haven't seen in the last 275 years. A real reckoning, a tallying of the numbers, the rewriting of the ledger. It's coming. A little 17th Century justice -- the stocks, tar and feathers, time in debtors prison, etc. -- would suit the suits just fine.
PS I took out the second loan trying to save my company, so that I could enrich my US Bank underwriter. Every dollar was spent toward that end, while I ate bagels and soup every evening, and slept in the back office. I thought when the doors closed that the corporate veil would protect me as it has so many businesses (like American). I didn't know the bank could effect an override based on a signature explained to me as having another purpose. So much for fair dealing. In case anyone wonders about how sincere my bad feelings really are. And if I feel that way, what about the other millions? The time for polite chatter online is over.
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For irrigation, germination or propagation and used in an upright position, the low flow application rate micro sprayer is a complete assembled unit that includes an 42 GPH micro sprayer with brown nozzle, anti leak device, 24" micro tubing, weight and barb. Designed to irrigate or propagate in greenhouse benches and beds in inverted position, these units provide the added benefit of keeping the benches clear of lateral pipes and prevent damage to the micro sprayers by any machinery being used. The completely assembled unit includes an anti-leak device that prevents dripping at the end of the irrigation cycle and keeps the lateral lines under pressure at all times, saving water and fertilizer that would otherwise be wasted as water drains the line.
Micro sprinklers or micro sprayers hanging upside down from the ceiling are a concept that offers a very efficient way to water and can be designed for almost any bench width in a greenhouse application. This inverted, hanging method of watering prevents wetting the supply line, which when wetting can cause drip damage to the plant below. The anti-leak device prevents the micro sprayers from draining the supply line at the end of the irrigation cycle. Another feature of inverted micro sprayers is that a stabilizer weight maintains the micro sprayers in perfect position relative to the bench. In addition, there are no micro sprayer heads to trip over, providing a safer and more efficient working environment.
In this category we have selected two models of micro sprayers from two manufactures with four flow rates and two configurations.
The micro sprayers provided by The Drip Store are suitable for all applications in the irrigation of seedlings, germination and propagation in benches or for row plantings in greenhouses applications. Used in an upright position with low application rate, the 360-degree micro sprayers have excellent uniformity under a wide range of pressures using a triangular or rectangular spacing layout.
For detailed information and installation instructions see our Micro Irrigation for Professional Greenhouses and NurseriesTutorial for Greenhouses section.