Arduino Adventures: Escape from Gemini Station

Chapter    14

Challenge 4: Fun Stuff to Know

Your brain is definitely going to get a workout with Challenge 4. Elle and Cade need to cross the room in the tool-transfer bucket, and they’re going to need to create a controller that will allow them to move the bucket across the gap with one of them in it. They’ll also need to reverse the bucket and bring it back to pick up their supplies… and to carry the remaining person across. (We know Cade will let Elle go first—he’s polite that way.)

For Challenge 3, you built a simple gizmo that could take a temperature reading. Think about it for a moment—you took an Arduino Uno, a few wires, a sensor, and an LED and wired it all up so it would alert you when a certain temperature value was reached. We’re ...