Easy to use Camera Sensor for EV3 & Hexbug

Mu camera sensor
Mu camera sensor

There’s yet another EV3 compatible camera sensor in town. Morpx has developed a camera sensor that communicates with your EV3 using IR signals. According to the project page, you can make the camera detect a line, and let it send IR commands to your robot in order to make it follow the line. Likewise, if you program the camera to detect a colored ball, you can make it track its position.

You can program the camera with a mobile phone app, and since you don’t have to program the EV3, it should be pretty easy to use. You can pre-order one for $15. More details are here.

Because it operates with IR, it’s also compatible with the Hexbug, and Power Functions (which is very cool). Here’s how it works with the EV3:

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  1. Paul Spenceley

    Hi Laurens,

    I have managed to get the brick sorter all working now, and I love it. I want to alter the programme slightly, but there is a grey block in your colour scanner ‘my block’, which I can’t copy, and I have no idea what it is – there aren’t any grey blocks in my program! Your one takes an input from the colour and size of the brick, which it then seems to pass on to the next ‘my block’. Please help, as I’m stuck.
    LOVE the book by the way – it is truely excellent – well done!

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