Arduino for Kids

High five!

Now you have everything you need to create your High-fiving robot!

We will use the ultrasonic proximity sensor we used in the previous chapter, along with conditional statements and relational operators to get everything working the way it should:

#include <NewPing.h> 
#include <Servo.h>  
  
 
NewPing sonar(2, 3); 
Servo myservo; 
  
void setup() { 
myservo.attach(9); 
} 
  
void loop() { 
  int dist = sonar.ping_cm(); 
  if (dist<15) 
  { 
    myservo.write(90); 
    delay(1000); 
  } 
  else  
  { 
    myservo.write(0); 
    delay(1000); 
  } 
} 

We begin by including the necessary libraries, our ultrasonic library, and the Servo library and initialize objects: sonar and myservo respectively. We attach our ultrasonic sensor to pins 2 and 3 of our Arduino and the servo to pin 9.

We then read the ...