Courtesy of Jim German of Motocube.
Using the Sensor Building Kit for NXT with PCF8574 IC, the SN754410 from Texas Instruments and some fancy wiring, Jim was able to control a Pneumatic Valve from his MINDSTORMS NXT.
While Jim mentions that this design could be improved (it requires a 24v power supply for starters) it is a good proof of concept. I can see a new range of home-grown pneumatic robots taking over the world... or the living room.
The full writeup is found here: Pneumatic Valves via Motocube
3 comments:
What's the point. Lego don't support pneumatic in the Education range anymore.
Actually - I just bought a bunch of pneumatic parts from Lego Education. I checked a few times a while back and they were not selling these pieces, but there up on the store now for anyone interested:
LegoEd Pneumatics
Anyone have good references for building pneumatic devices with NXT (best practices for motors, torque, switches)?
Thanks for sharing the link to original post.
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