Learn Robotics Programming

Types of sensors

I have a small selection of common sensors I use—similar to those that will be covered in this book. These have been used in robots I have built. Let's examine each one, and what we would use it for. Note that these may look different from the same sensor types seen before - there is a large variation in sensors that perform the same task, and when we get to adding them into the robot, we will cover their variants in more detail. Refer to the following set of photos:

A selection of sensors from my robots

Let's understand each image in detail:

1. This is a Raspberry Pi Camera module, which connects directly into a Raspberry Pi. ...