Home  Sources  Part descriptions Assembly descriptions  Motor drivers  Sensors  Contact Sensors  Proximity Sensors  Sound Sensors  Field Sensors  Light Sensors  State sensors  Solar engines   BEAM Pieces is a BEAM Reference Library site.		BEAM sensors Is anybody out there...? BEAMbots often have sensors to allow them to interact more fully with their environments. Sensors used in BEAMbots to date fall into one of six categories (these categories are detailed in subsequent pages):   Contact sensors -- require a "touch" to trigger Proximity sensors -- so your 'bot can detect objects at some distance Sound sensors -- allow your 'bot to "hear" Field sensors -- designed to be sensitive to various (E, RF) fields around a 'bot Light sensors -- designed to be (and in some cases are inadvertently) sensitive to light State sensors -- give you information on various states of your 'bot -- position, tilt angle, temperature, and the like For more information... You can get a lot of good sensor ideas from Michael Gasteri's Lego Mindstorms sensors page. Meanwhile, I have yet to gather enough data to put up a motion sensor page(s), but GloLab has some good information on infrared (PIR) motion sensors here.
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