Lego + Arduino, Mobile Robotics Platform

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Platform base

What is the Lego + Arduino mobile robotics platform?

Using LEDs

Requirements

What is an LED?

Program to Flash an LED

Add a Second LED

How to Dim an LED

125px Extension activities for LEDs

Robot Motion

Requirements

What is a Lego Motor

Connecting a Lego Motor to the Arduino

125px Driving Forwards and Backwards

125px Turning

Using functions to simplify coding

Navigate a Simple Maze

125px Extension activities for Robot Motion

Touch Sensor

Requirements

What is a touch sensor?

Using a Touch Sensor to Light an LED

Starting a program with a touch sensor

Detecting Obstacles with a touch sensor

Navigate a simple maze using a touch sensor

125px Extension activities for the Touch Sensor

Ultrasonic Sensor

NOTE: ROBOTC does not currently support the Lego Sonar (Ultrasonic) sensor.

Requirements

125px What is an ultrasonic sensor?

125px Connecting an ultrasonic sensor

125px Programing an ultrasonic sensor to measure distance

125px program to drive forward and avoid obstacles

125px navigate a simple maze using the ultrasonic sensor

125px Extension activities for the Ultrasonic Sensor

Proportional Control

Requirements

125px What is proportional control?

125px Using proportional control with the Sonar Sensor

125px Extension activities using Proportional Control

Passive Light Sensor

NOTE: The Lego light sensor is not working well as a passive sensor - it can't register values much brighter than room ambiance, even under the bright incandescent lights. It's fine in the dark though.

Requirements

What is a Passive Light Sensor

Connecting a Passive Light sensor

Using the Light Sensor to find light

Using the Light Sensor to avoid light

125px Extension activities for the passive light sensors

Light Sensor

Requirements

What is an active Light Sensor

Connecting an Active Light sensor

Using a light sensor to stop at a line

Using a light sensor to follow a line

Using the Light Sensor LED

Navigate a simple maze using a light sensor

125px Extension activities for the Light Sensor

Sharp IR Sensor

What is different about the Sharp IR Sensor?

Connecting the Sharp IR Sensor

Using the Sharp IR Sensor to detect objects and their distance

125px Extension activities for the Sharp IR sensor

Encoders

Requirements

What is an encoder?

Connecting an encoder

125px Using encoders to drive some distance

125px Using encoders to correct motor variation

Using encoders to make turns

Using encoders to navigate the simple maze

125px Extension activities using Encoders