10/01/2002
5:45 PM

 

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  • Mindstorms -- RCX Sensors
    • Lego Built Sensors
      • Touch Sensor, Light Sensor, Rotation Sensor, Temperature Sensor
    • Other companies make sensors for Mindstorms -- and you can make sensors, too!
    • Each of the sensors has a "raw" value, a boolean value and a processed value
    • Raw is sensor's voltage level, converted to a scale 0-1023
    • Lego firmware then can translate (or not) the readings into a special mode for each type of sensor:
      • Raw, binary, edge count, pulse count, percentage, rotation, Celsius & Farenheight
 
   
Ted Stevko, Stevko Studios http://www.plasticnoodle.com