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By Jon Lazar
We all know the way striking LEGO is, and a growing number of everyone is researching what number awesome belongings you can do with Arduino. In Arduino and LEGO Projects, Jon Lazar exhibits you the way to mix of the best issues on this planet to make enjoyable contraptions like a Magic Lantern RF reader, a sensor-enabled LEGO song field, or even an Arduino-controlled LEGO educate set.
- Learn that SNOT is admittedly cool (it capability Studs now not on most sensible)
- See certain motives and pictures of ways every little thing suits jointly
- Learn how Arduino matches into each one venture, together with code and reasons
Whether you need to galvanize your mates, annoy the cat, or simply chill and indulge in the awesomeness of your creations, Arduino and LEGO Projects indicates you simply what you wish and the way to place all of it jointly.
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For this project, the head will have three positions (left, right, and center). If either of the side sensors is triggered, the motor will turn all the way to that respective side, but if the middle sensor is triggered, it needs to know which side it is facing in order to know which way to turn. Using if else statements, you check the array to see which sensors are triggered and then turn. When a sensor is triggered, it checks whether the last sensor triggered was the same one, and if not, it turns and sets the position variable for the next iteration of the loop.
Figure 2-10. The smaller ring goes beneath the first ring Figure 2-11. The smaller ring placed beneath the two rings that were previously assembled The next level of the body will hold the Arduino in place. 40 Chapter 2 ■ Using Sensors with the Android Building a Harness for the Arduino A LEGO harness will be strong enough to hold the Arduino so that nothing else will be needed to hold it. While you already soldered the sensors into the motor shield, they won’t be seen in the pictures until the steps in which you begin to place them for clarity when looking at the building process (see Figures 2-12 and 2-13).
Figure 2-15. The fifth layer, above the plug, locks it into place 42 Chapter 2 ■ Using Sensors with the Android Figure 2-16. The sixth layer is built on top of the plug Figure 2-17. A third layer, the seventh, is built on top of the plug, continuing to alternate the bricks on top of each other 43 Chapter 2 ■ Using Sensors with the Android Figure 2-18. The eighth layer is built over the plug With four layers built over the plug, the fifth layer adds a brick with a hole in the middle in order to add the Android’s arms.