Making Sensors for LEGO Mindstorms
Maker Faire Bay Area 2016
MAKERS
Adam Wolf
Adam Wolf is a cofounder and engineer at Wayne and Layne, LLC, where he designs kits and interactive exhibits. He also does embedded systems work at an engineering design services firm in Minneapolis, MN.
Matthew Beckler
Matthew Beckler is a cofounder and engineer at Wayne and Layne. He also works at a fleet telematics company, is finishing his Ph. D at CMU, and occasionally finds time to post photos of his cats to the internet.
Schedule:
Sunday, May 22
Zone 2 - Make: Electronics12:30 pm - 12:55 pm
Zone 4 - Make: Show & Tell
1:30 pm - 1:55 pm
Out of the box, LEGO Mindstorms has buttons and a few LEGO sensors for detecting obstacles and seeing colors. However, using a little electronics and a little programming, you can connect non-LEGO sensors to your Mindstorms robot to detect nearly anything!
