{"id":3907,"date":"2017-03-01T22:55:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T06:55:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"3907","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/3907","title":{"rendered":"What equipment do I need for the LEGO-NXT Engineering Projects book?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Vernier Engineering Projects with LEGO<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> MINDSTORMS<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Education NXT<\/i> (EP-NXT, <em>discontinued<\/em>) contains 12 engineering challenges for use with the LEGO\u00ae MINDSTORMS\u00ae Education NXT Base Set and LEGO\u00ae MINDSTORMS\u00ae Education NXT Software version 2<\/p>\n<p>Vernier does not distribute LEGO equipment. The NXT system is no longer sold by LEGO Education. However, it can be found from 3rd party online sources.<\/p>\n<p>Vernier Equipment:<\/p>\n<p>To perform all of the projects you will need this package of Vernier sensors and LEGO sensor adapter:<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/product\/engineering-projects-with-lego-mindstorms-ev3\/\">Engineering Projects with LEGO<sup>&reg;<\/sup> MINDSTORMS<sup>&reg;<\/sup> EV3<\/a> (<nobr>LEGO-EP<\/nobr>)<\/p>\n<p>You can purchase sensors a la cart, if you prefer. You will also need to purchase the Vernier LEGO sensor adapter <a href=\"\/product\/nxt-sensor-adapter\/\">NXT Sensor Adapter<\/a> (<nobr>BTA-NXT<\/nobr>). The Activities section of the following web page has a table that outlines which sensors are used for each of the projects:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/products\/books\/ep-nxt\/#section5\">https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/products\/books\/ep-nxt\/#section5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The following projects require additional equipment:<\/p>\n<p>The Plant Waterer project requires a LEGO Pneumatic Hand Pump and pneumatic tubing.<br \/>\nThe Cartesian Diver project requires a LEGO Pneumatic Hand Pump, pneumatic tubing and LEGO Pneumatic Switch.<br \/>\nThe Solar Tracker project requires two small solar panels, such as <a href=\"\/product\/kidwind-2v-400ma-solar-panel\/\">KidWind 2V\/400mA Solar Panel<\/a> (<nobr>KW-SP2V<\/nobr>)<\/p>\n<p>At this time, LEGO Education sells a Pneumatics Add-On Set (part number 9641) that includes pumps, switches, tubing, an air tank, cylinders, and a manometer.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>contains 12 engineering challenges for use with the LEGO\u00ae MINDSTORMS\u00ae Education NXT Base Set and LEGO\u00ae MINDSTORMS\u00ae Education NXT Software version 2 Vernier does not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86433,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2613,6572,2614,2612],"class_list":["post-3907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bta-nxt","tag-ep-nxt","tag-lego","tag-nxt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}