Lego Mindstorms Nxt 8527

[Bessie Murrillo]

Additionallythere are two versions of element resource sets (These contains just plastic building parts, no electronic components!). While intended as add-on packs for the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Education base kit, they are also a perfect parts resource for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT or LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0.

The Standard LEGO Light Sensor is present in the NXT 1.0 set and in the Education Base Set. This sensor measures light intensity only, reading a value between 0 (very dark) and 100 (very bright). The sensor has a LED Light that you can switch on and off. When off, you use the sensor to measure ambient light. When on, you use it to measure reflected light of a surface. This way, you can follow a dark line (black) on a light surface (white), because white results in a greater reflection of light, resulting in a higher sensor measurement. Similarly, a yellow surface typically reflects more light than a blue or green surface, but you cannot use the sensor to exactly distinguish colors.

Contrary, the NXT 2.0 set has a Color Sensor. When programmed in Light Sensor Mode, this sensor has the exact same functionality as described above. However, it can also be programmed in Color Sensor mode. When doing so, the sensor can detect 6 different colors: Black, White, Blue, Green, Yellow and Red. A third functionality of this device is Lamp Mode, where it functions as a basic light, optionally Red, Green or Blue.

NOTE: I did my very best to provide accurate and up to date information to this page, but there are no guarantees that there are no mistakes! If you find any inaccuracies, let me know so I can improve the article.

About the 2 different versions of the Edu box (9797) there are actually more versions, since the all come included with an charger, but that one has to fit the local power outlets. unfortunately there is not a clear (or disclosed) marking on the box what version of charger / battery is in side.

This is really helpful! Thank You for writing it! I just wanted to tell you that if you lost a part from your set you can order it from LEGO in their missing parts section here is the link: -US/replacementparts/default.aspx

Thank you for this very helpful information. Based on your article I just purchased an NXT 1.0 set. However, when I loaded the newest firmware onto the brick (version 1.31) the screen was completely blank. I know the brick is working because when I turn on the brick and push the buttons on the brick in the same order as another working brick that my friend brought over to my house to help me figure out this problem, the brick worked perfectly. For the record, we had the brick run one of its pre-loaded programs (the one under Try It where the sound sensor makes the motor turn). When we did this by pushing the appropriate buttons in the correct order, sure enough, everything worked.

The Robot Educator software (A.k.a NXT-G Education version) is nearly the same as the retail version. However, the Educator version includes some step-by-step instructions for getting started with the software.

In addition, you can do Datalogging Experiments with the Educator software. This means you can connect a sensor to the NXT, like a temperature sensor and then plot a graph of the temperature on the screen.

I am surprised at how different the answers are and am very grateful for your more straight forward information. I had simply asked for a chart comparing the various sets which I later found with your article.

I am a teacher and thinking of using the lego mindstorms kits in my class. If we have the the education version of the NXT software at school, can students who have the commercial non-eduction version at home take their robots home and program them through their own computer. In other words is there a compatability issue?

Fantastic website! I am a coach at our school for our FIRSTLEGOleague team and found all my answers right here. I have one copy of your LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 Discovery Book that I loaned to a student and will be getting another for myself as it is a great resource. Keep it up!! Your work is much appreciated.

Thanks for the very helpful article. I have ordered the NXT 2.0 set for my 10-year old daughter. She is planning on asking people to give her money for Christmas to pay for it, and I went ahead to get started during the holidays. She first wanted to do this for an iPod touch but after going to a few meetings of the robotics club at school, she decided that robots are more interesting, and I can only encourage her in that.

From what I read, the documentation with the kit is quite minimal, and your books seem to be the best out there. I am wondering how they compare and which one would be more appropriate for a beginner 10 year old with a 40-something dad who is not an engineer or computer programmer? I could not find any direct comparison of them.

There is just one thing. I too happen to have got a Education set (9797). However it has 437 pieces, and it does not have a charger, contrary to the details you have mentioned above. Could it probably be that Lego has come up with yet another version of the 9797 set?

The charger does not come in the plastic box because of different versions across countries. But I thought that the set generally came with a charger packed separately. Apparently then this is not always the case.

Thank you VERY much for your website. I homeschool my 9 year-old son, and I had several concerns about spending more than our usual birthday budget without enough information. I now know which set we want for our particular interests and needs, that we can use any set items for robotics competitions in the future (should we decide to do that), what additional items we need to purchase asap but not necessarily immediately, and after reading reviews of your book on Amazon, I am confident that we can do this on our own with your beginner book.I cannot thank you enough for your informative website! Lego should pay you, because you are the reason we are going ahead with this purchase. The information they provide on thier retail and education websites is useless for the layperson to understand what they are buying. Happy holidays! ?

Hello. I have just purchased both the Retail 8547 and the Education 9797 sets for my sons. Is it possible to load both versions of the NXT software 2.0 and 2.1 onto one computer? I would like to do that to take advantage of the benefits of each program.

I have a question. If you have an NXT 1.0 set, can you use NXT 2.0 parts? For example, could I upgrade the firmware and software and then be able to plug in the new color sensor? How, if at all, could I do this? Thanks in advance! Please help!

Daniel

Personally I feel that NXT2.0 retail is more interesting. But however most of the education center is using Base Set 9797. So if I am sending my kids to one of this center, is that means I should get 9797 better??

Thank you for the article. I have long debated over retail vs education. As my FIRST team moves up from JrFLL this year to FLL next, we will need to purchase a NXT set. Of course now I have to weigh in EV3. It looks to me, if we go NXT, that it would be more affordable to go retail and buy the charger as an add on. Any pieces we would be missing, we already have in our JrFLL kit.

I am new in this NXT2.0. It was to my surprise to see those bricks and parts from the box. Do you have any advice or recommendation on how you can store those parts or at least keep them organize? I believe the Education base set does come with a storage box but not the retail set. What kind of storage best fit those bricks and electronic parts?

I teach a 6th grade robotics class with the Education Base Sets (#9797) that were purchased in 2012. As a challenge to some of my more advanced students, I would like to find some bonus models that utilize the pieces in the kits we have. The ones listed on this site ( -official-bonus-models/) are fantastic but we cannot build them since there are so many different pieces in the #8547 kit. Does anyone know of any sources for challenging models for the #9797 kit. Thank you!

I am planning to buy an EV3 and a NXT mdl for school use. Although EV3 is a newer version, I have researched that there are more books, curriculum, and websites available for NXT. What is your suggestion?

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