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The NXT will therefor provide some basic navigation functions like goForwards, goBackwards, rotateRight, etc., as the software for basic flight is going to do later, too, and control the motors accordingly. The Arduino will be connected to the rest of existing components as usual.
The An NXT block is generally able to communicate over I2C as master to any slave device, for instance the Arduino. Via simple looped polling the NXT can ask the Arduino for drive commands.
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