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Learning Lego Mindstorms EV3

You're reading from   Learning Lego Mindstorms EV3 Build and create interactive, sensor-based robots using your LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 kit

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783985029
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gary Garber Gary Garber
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Preface 1. Engineering Notebook FREE CHAPTER 2. Mechanical Design 3. Drive Train and Chassis 4. Sensors and Control 5. Interacting with EV3 6. Output from EV3 7. Advanced Programming 8. Advanced Programming and Control 9. Experiment Software and Data Logging 10. Other Programming Languages 11. Communication between Robots 12. Advanced Robot – Gyro Boy Index

LEGO EV3 sensors

We are now going to try using all of the sensors. I will focus mostly on the Touch, Color, and rotation sensors, as those are common to both editions of the EV3 set.

Touch Sensors

Like most of the EV3 sensors, the Touch Sensor can be attached to your robot using either pins or axles as shown in the following screenshot. The Touch Sensor is a logic sensor with only two positions: on or off. Thus, the output of a Touch Sensor is either a 0 (for released) or 1 (for pressed). Although it is straightforward to press the red button to activate the Touch Sensor, you can mechanically extend its range by inserting an axle into the red button on the Touch Sensor, as shown in the screenshot. If you didn't want to attach the Touch Sensor to the robot directly, with a long cable the Touch Sensor could be used as a sort of tether control for your robot.

Touch Sensors

When you plug in the Touch Sensor into the EV3 brick, and the EV3 brick is in communication with the computer, the Touch Sensor will...

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