Accessories that light up are pretty cool, but we can go a step farther. In this chapter Joan and Rich introduce you to a few different types of sensors—components that can detect some property of the real world, like temperature or light level. You can then program your Arduino to take the sensor reading and do something based on it. For example, in Chapter 11 we teach you how to make a hat that lights up different colors based on the angle of your head. In this ...
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8. Sensors and Other Hardware
Joan Horvath1 , Lyn Hoge2 and Rich Cameron1
(1)Nonscriptum LLC, Pasadena, California, USA
(2)Los Angeles, California, USA
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