Week 14 · Sensors and actuators
Sensors: measuring light and distance
A button can only say yes or no. Most of the real world is not like that: it is a bit dark, quite far, getting warmer. Sensors turn those changing quantities into numbers a program can use. Today you build a light meter and a distance meter — the first parts of the sensor monitor you will finish in week 15.
Electronics, robotics and IoT90 minutesIntermediateLevel 2 module
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