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The LEGO Arduino Cookbook

Expanding the Realm of MINDSTORMS EV3 Invention

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Authors:
  1. Grady Koch

    1. Yorktown, USA

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  • Unlock the complexity of sophisticated sensors and devices to use with LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3
  • Develop inventions and applications beyond the ordinary scope of LEGO MINDSTORMS
  • Hone programming skills without getting bogged down in C code or details on communications protocols

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. The LEGO Arduino Workstation

    • Grady Koch
    Pages 1-14

  3. Programming the EV3 Intelligent Brick

    • Grady Koch
    Pages 15-23

  4. Programming the Arduino

    • Grady Koch
    Pages 25-36

  5. Sensors and Electronics

    • Grady Koch
    Pages 37-48

  6. The LEGO Metal Detector—I2C Sensor with EV3 Analog Interface

    • Grady Koch
    Pages 49-69

  7. Programmable LEDs—I2C Controller with EV3 Analog Interface

    • Grady Koch
    Pages 71-91

  8. I2C Communication with the EV3 Intelligent Brick

    • Grady Koch
    Pages 93-105

  9. The LEGO Lidar—PWM Sensor with EV3 I2C Interface

    • Grady Koch
    Pages 107-137

  10. The LEGO Weather Station—SPI Sensor with EV3 I2C Interface

    • Grady Koch
    Pages 139-156

  11. The LEGO Spectrum Analyzer—Arduino Shield with I2C Output to EV3

    • Grady Koch
    Pages 157-174

  12. Favorite Color Machine—Arduino Shield with I2C Output from EV3

    • Grady Koch
    Pages 175-189

  13. Connecting MINDSTORMS to a Smartphone

    • Grady Koch
    Pages 191-222

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 223-234
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About this book

Push into new fields of technology using LEGO and Arduino with the projects in this Cookbook. MINDSTORMS EV3 inventions don’t have to be confined to LEGO factory-made sensors. Incorporate a wide range of sensors, displays, LED arrays, actuators, and even a smartphone into your creations. 

Add amazing capabilities to your LEGOs by building things such as a metal detector, long-range lidar, audio spectrum analyzer, weather station, and a smartphone. Step-by-step instructions bring these new devices to life. You’ll work with the reliable and inexpensive Arduino UNO to take your projects even further and make them truly smart. Learn to set up and program your Arduino UNO. Then learn data communications protocols (I2C, SPI, and PWM) to link sensors to the Arduino. A variety of data communications techniques are also demonstrated on passing data between the Arduino and the MINDSTORMS EV3 Intelligent Brick. 

Equipped with these new tools, LEGO inventors can build vast new capabilities into their designs.

What You'll Learn
  • Interface new sensors, devices, and communications with LEGO Mindstorms EV3
  • Work with communication protocols of pulse width modulation (PWM), I2c, and SPI
  • Convert pulse width modulation to analog voltage with resistor and capacitor components



Who This Book Is For


Tech savvy fans of LEGO projects and hardware hackers. Also coaches or students involved in a school science/technology project or design competition.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Yorktown, USA

    Grady Koch

About the author

Grady Koch emphasizes building things from LEGO that can be applied to practical use in science, engineering, or security.  He is the author of LEGO Optics:  Projects in Optical and Laser Science with LEGO, High-Tech LEGO: Projects in Science, Engineering, and Spycraft with Technic and Mindstorms EV3, and Secrets of Eli’s LEGO Collection.  He also writes for and runs hightechlego.com, which features various LEGO technology projects. His day job since 1987 has been as a research engineer with NASA Langley Research Center. There he works with technology for remote sensing atmospheric phenomena.  He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering.  And he holds three patents in the field of wind measurements with lidar.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The LEGO Arduino Cookbook

  • Book Subtitle: Expanding the Realm of MINDSTORMS EV3 Invention

  • Authors: Grady Koch

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6303-7

  • Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA

  • eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Grady Koch 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-6302-0Published: 28 October 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-6303-7Published: 27 October 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 234

  • Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 149 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Hardware and Maker

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