After some searching, I ended up using a microcontroller and a piece of code borrowed from the web that I tweaked and adapted. The microcontroller-based concept was chosen because I wanted to scale ...

The robot's eyes and ears are provided by an ultrasonic sensor and an infrared sensor, both of which can probably be purchased from electronics hobby stores. Or you can also make your own, for ...

“Muxall open source Infrared Detector (IRD) for reflective sensing, light curtains, and fast proximity applications. Works with Arduino (5V) and Raspberry Pi (3.3V) TTL.” ...

It has a distance sensor to calculate the distance to walls and objects, an accelerometer, light-sensing phototransistors to seek out light or dark, edge detection sensors, infrared transmitters ...

Sphero has announced another rolling ball robot called the Sphero BOLT. The Sphero BOLT follows in the company’s ethos of having a commitment to education-based products, but comes with some ...

Old infrared remote controls can be a great way to interface with your projects. One of [AnalysIR’s] latest blog posts goes over the simplest way to create an Arduino based IR receiver, makin… ...

But the kit is expandable, enabling you to add sensors not included for a customized robot. These third-party sensors must include a 3-pin XH2.54 interface to be compatible with this kit. Meccano ...