{"id":3950,"date":"2017-03-30T19:24:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T02:24:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"3950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/3950","title":{"rendered":"Can you use Vernier sensors with VEX Robotics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vexrobotics.com\/\">VEX Robotics<\/a> is a robotics platform used by Project Lead the Way (PLTW) and some other engineering education curricula. Additionally, VEX has a popular robotics competition.<\/p>\n<p>VEX EDR:<br \/>\nWith some hardware and software work, you can use our sensors with the VEX Cortez microcontroller, included in the VEX EDR system.<\/p>\n<p>Connecting the hardware is straight forward, but will likely require some soldering\/breadboarding. You need to make the following connections between one of the eight Cortex analog inputs and a Vernier analog sensor (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/support\/sensor-pinouts\/\">pinout<\/a>):<br \/>\n* Cortex outside pin (closest to the edge) &#8212; Vernier sensor pin 2 (ground)<br \/>\n* Cortex middle pin &#8212; Vernier sensor pin 5 (5 V power)<br \/>\n* Cortex inside pin (furthest from controller edge) &#8212; Vernier sensor pin 6 (sensor output line)<\/p>\n<p>In software, you&#8217;ll need to read in the sensor&#8217;s output voltage and convert it into a sensor reading, the the calibration equation found in its user manual.<\/p>\n<p>VEX IQ:<br \/>\nWe have not had any success connecting our analog sensors to the VEX IQ microcontroller. We were able to connect our photogate, taking the place of a digital switch.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VEX Robotics is a robotics platform used by Project Lead the Way (PLTW) and some other engineering education curricula. Additionally, VEX has a popular robotics&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100811,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6634,6635,6637,6633,4765,6632,6636],"class_list":["post-3950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-edr-cortex-iq","tag-iq","tag-robot","tag-robot-platform","tag-robotics","tag-vex","tag-vex-iq"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950","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\/100811"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}