Lego and Arduino
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- Hapka
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Lego and Arduino
I changed my high school robotics course from Lego Mindstorms to Arduino this year so I have lots of the Mindstorms servo motors (the orange and white ones) and the lego sensors. Is there a way that those motors and sensors can be used with an Arduino board?
- adafruit_support_bill
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Re: Lego and Arduino
There are a bunch of tutorials on reverse engineering the Mindstorms protocols. They use a slow version of i2c for the sensors and a hybrid communications scheme for the motors.
Xander Soldaat has done a lot of good work in this area and his web site is a great resource.
http://botbench.com/blog/about/
I've never used one of these, but it may be just the thing you are looking for:
https://www.wayneandlayne.com/projects/ ... cs-shield/
Xander Soldaat has done a lot of good work in this area and his web site is a great resource.
http://botbench.com/blog/about/
I've never used one of these, but it may be just the thing you are looking for:
https://www.wayneandlayne.com/projects/ ... cs-shield/
- Hapka
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- Joined: Fri Jul 03, 2015 10:52 pm
Re: Lego and Arduino
Thanks! Those both look at viable options, I'm relieved someone has already built a shield for this.
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