Push into new fields of technology using LEGO and Arduino with the projects in this Cookbook. MINDSTORMS EV3 inventions don't have to be confined to LEGO factory-made sensors. Incorporate a wide range of sensors, displays, LED arrays, actuators, and even a smartphone into your creations.

Add amazing capabilities to your LEGOs by building things such as a metal detector, long-range lidar, audio spectrum analyzer, weather station, and a smartphone. Step-by-step instructions bring these new devices to life. You'll work with the reliable and inexpensive Arduino UNO to take your projects even further and make them truly smart. Learn to set up and program your Arduino UNO. Then learn data communications protocols (I2C, SPI, and PWM) to link sensors to the Arduino. A variety of data communications techniques are also demonstrated on passing data between the Arduino and the MINDSTORMS EV3 Intelligent Brick.
Equipped with these new tools, LEGO inventors can build vast new capabilities into their designs.
You will:
  • Interface new sensors, devices, and communications with LEGO Mindstorms EV3
  • Work with communication protocols of pulse width modulation (PWM), I2c, and SPI
  • Convert pulse width modulation to analog voltage with resistor and capacitor components



Autorentext
Grady Koch emphasizes building things from LEGO that can be applied to practical use in science, engineering, or security.  He is the author of LEGO Optics:  Projects in Optical and Laser Science with LEGO, High-Tech LEGO: Projects in Science, Engineering, and Spycraft with Technic and Mindstorms EV3, and Secrets of Eli's LEGO Collection.  He also writes for and runs hightechlego.com, which features various LEGO technology projects. His day job since 1987 has been as a research engineer with NASA Langley Research Center. There he works with technology for remote sensing atmospheric phenomena.  He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering.  And he holds three patents in the field of wind measurements with lidar.

Inhalt

Introduction

Chapter 1: The LEGO Arduino Workstation

            The Arduino

            Assembling the LEGO Arduino Workstation

            The Breadboard and Wiring

Final Assembly

            Summary

 

Chapter 2: Programming the EV3 Intelligent Brick

            Getting Started with the MINDSTORMS EV3 Programming Environment

            Programming

            Extra and Aftermarket Device Blocks

            My Blocks

            Summary

 

Chapter 3: Programming the Arduino

            Installing the Arduino Integrated Development Environment

            Navigating the Arduino IDE

            Running a First Sketch

            Working with Libraries

            Working with Functions

            Summary

 

Chapter 4: Sensors and Electronics

            MINDSTORMS Sensors and Motors

            Aftermarket MINDSTORM-Compatible Sensors

            Arduino Sensors

            Pulsewidth Modulation (PWM)

            Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C) Inteface

            Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)

            Electronic Components

            Resistors

            Capacitors

            Summary

 

Chapter 5: The LEGO Metal DetectorI2C Sensor with EV3 Analog Interface

            Mounting the Grove Inductive Sensor

            The Low-Pass Filter

        &nb...

Titel
The LEGO Arduino Cookbook
Untertitel
Expanding the Realm of MINDSTORMS EV3 Invention
EAN
9781484263037
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Hersteller
Veröffentlichung
27.10.2020
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Wasserzeichen
Dateigrösse
12.08 MB
Anzahl Seiten
234