Gadget Book: High-Tech LEGO Projects - Electronics Weekly

Working with MINDSTORMS EV3, it aims to inspire people to build a range of working devices for a variety of applications, indoors and outdoors.

It’s not quite out yet, note, but it is published next month, October 2020.

The publishers, No Starch Press, write:

“Every project brings together science, mechanics, electronics, optics, and software to create complex instruments for studying and measuring the world around you, all while maintaining the playfulness of LEGO. Each easy-to-follow model combines illustrated instructions with step-by-step guidance on the engineering methods at play.”

“Experiment on your own, and expand on your finished creations. Make a few adjustments so the Critter Cam triggers an alarm to scare away pests, or modify the Doppler radar to detect flammable gases. The possibilities are endless!”

Chapters of the book – to give you a flavour – cover such ideas as a Laser Security Fence, a Morse Code Transmitter, a Motion-Sensing Radar and an Infrared Thermometer…

Author details

The author is Grady Koch, creator of the associated website, hightechlego.com. He has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, 30 years of experience as a research engineer at NASA Langley Research Center, and three patents in the field of LiDAR for studying the atmosphere.

He has also written or contributed to over 175 conference and seminar papers, including 13 peer-reviewed journal papers as first author, says the publisher. So he certainly knows his stuff!

Table of contents

The full table of contents is as follows:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: The Motion-Activated Critter Cam
• Chapter 2: The LEGO-Compatible Laser
• Chapter 3: The Laser Security Fence
• Chapter 4: Morse Code Transmitters
• Chapter 5: Infrared Message Transmitters
• Chapter 6: The Automatic Insect Trapper
• Chapter 7: The Motion-Sensing Radar
• Chapter 8: The Tower of Eratosthenes
• Chapter 9: Hacking LEGO Light Bricks
• Chapter 10: The Flickering Fireplace
• Chapter 11: The Laser Light Show
• Chapter 12: The Infrared Thermometer and Cannon

High-Tech LEGO Projects details

Title: High-Tech LEGO Projects – 16 Rule-Breaking Inventions
Author: Grady Koch
Publisher: No Starch Press
Price: $29.95
Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781718500259
Date: October 2020

You can read more information on the No Starch Press website.

See also: Gadget Book: TinyML for the Arduino

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