Particularly the...
-laser sensor module
-the hunt sensor
-linear magnetic hall sensor
-magic light cup
Can somebody explain their uses/how to use them? Theres also some mercury sensors of some sort, and heartbeat detectors that are cool, but i cant for the love of me, figure out how to use them either...
The types of shields/sensors are listed below the picture... looks like you can do darn near anything with that assortment. You will have to dig through then Arduino site to find out how to use them. There are lots of tutorials and scripts on many of these.
Pick out one that make sense to you and start from there... I assume you have an arduino board.
You're going to have to post close-up pictures of the individual modules you have questions with. From your names the only two I can guess at is the "hall sensor" which is used to detect the presence of a magnetic field, "linear" in that it will output a variable voltage on the signal line depending on the strength of the magnet. The "laser sensor" is more than likely just a laser (not a sensor).
I had a "magic light cup" once. It magically didn't do its job when I needed it most. Man that hurt.
That is a grand sensor kit for the price. That, a breadboard, a bunch of jumpers, and an Arduino would make a great starter kit. I don't need it and I just bought one.
I know this is a bit old, but I stumbled on this thread when I was trying to learn more about these sensors. Maybe it will help some other Google searchers.
After some digging, I found the full set of documentation for these sensors. It's written in "translated" English so it can be a bit challenging.
The ziped file of the documentation is located at http://datometer.com/37SensorKit.zip
I got it for cheap at amazon. Some say the shipping is $50 which brings the total price to $80, but in my case Amazon gave me free shipping (within the US) so the total price is just $52.
I found the entire list of sensor products included, note the part numbers at the end of each line, just do a google search for the part number and you'll come up with a site that documents it with code samples.
Hi everyone.
How would you use the Optical Broken module KY-010. I can't find any references on how to use it. I found sample code for it and it looks like you have to somehow physically insert something to break a beam into a very small slot.
Thanks for any help with this.
This is a photo interrupter. One side has a LED and the other side has a phototransistor. You turn the LED on and the transistor is lit so,gives an output (high or low depending on transistor).
When you put something in the gap, the light is broken and the output changes.
You would use that by attaching it to the frame of the door of a cupboard or closet, and attaching a small flat object to the door, so that when the door is closed, the small flat object is blocking the slot in the device.
The you can use that to control the light inside the closet. Or an alarm.
The optical interrupt sensor would typically be used to encode an axis.
You run a thin wheel with slots through the small gap, which means you can count the openings as they appear and calculate the position or calculate the rpm based on the amount of slots in the circle.
