Building Robots With Lego Mindstorms

Reading Sensors

Solutions in this chapter:

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Touch Sensor

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Light Sensor

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Rotation Sensor

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Temperature Sensor

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Sensor Tips and Tricks

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Other Sensors

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Introduction

Motors, through gears and pulleys, provide motion to your robot; they are the

muscles that move its legs and arms.The time has come to equip your creature

with sensors, which will act as its eyes, ears, and fingers.

The MINDSTORMS box contains two types of sensors: the touch sensor (two

of them) and the light sensor. In this ...