robotics

[silver]

I'm looking for something fairly specific. I'd like a mindstorms/lego technic type building system that is compatible with Arduino or Raspberry Pi and the electronic components of those systems. So rather than buying Mindstorms and being stuck with their motors and sensors, I'd like my son to be able to build various models and use any sensor or motor that will work with Arduino or the Pi. It doesn't have to be technic style, but I know that's pretty popular with lots of knock off kits out there. The various knock off kits seem to be more Lego Boost based than anything, where you have to use a tablet to program it and run the program--it doesn't have the processor/memory to hold and run code on its own the way an Arduino board does. 

Does anyone have any ideas?

[summerreading]

I think Vex might be compatible.

Also Make Magazine has a book on making your own sensors for Pi https://www.amazon.com/Make-Sensors-Hands-Monitoring-Raspberry/dp/1449368107

[CAJinBE]

We used the BOEBot Robot for Arduino kit from Adafruit very successfully in our co-op. https://www.adafruit.com/product/749

 

[silver]

On 11/27/2019 at 9:26 AM, summerreading said:

I think Vex might be compatible.

Also Make Magazine has a book on making your own sensors for Pi https://www.amazon.com/Make-Sensors-Hands-Monitoring-Raspberry/dp/1449368107

The Vex stuff looks interesting, I'll have to dig into that to see more about it. I've already found a tutorial about getting an arduino to control the vex motors.

Thanks!