This one was a request by one my readers and what a great suggestion! Taking this sensor apart proved a little bit of a challenge. It wasn’t as eager to give ups secrets as readily as some of the other ones I’ve opened up in the past. I also didn’t [...]
No, not a HiTechnic sensor in this episode of Exposed. Yesterday someone on the Mindboards forums asked what the third bump on the LEGO Colour Sensor was for. I was curious enough to take a small blade to one of my sensors and take it apart. I did take some [...]
What’s this? Two Exposed posts in two days? What is this madness? To be honest I’ve been wanting to cut HiTechnic’s new Barometric Sensor open since I got it a while back. I held off while it wasn’t on sale yet since I couldn’t really write about it anyway. However, [...]
I’ve received a fresh batch of sensor covers in the mail so I can once again show you the gory details of various NXT sensor innards. This time I took a knife to the HiTechnic Acceleration Sensor. I’ve been curious about this one for a little while now. From the [...]
The HiTechnic Angle Sensor was released a few weeks ago and I’ve been eagerly awaiting a production version of it. The wait is over now and of course the first thing that came to my mind was “I wonder what it looks like on the inside.” Gus from HiTechnic did [...]
A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to receive one of the main components in the upcoming Renewable Energy Add-on Set. I didn’t get a manual with it so it was a bit of a mystery to me. However, thanks to John Hansen and some very helpful peeps at [...]
On my continuing mission to take apart HiTechnic sensors and show you guys their guts, I present to you: The Gyro. The little yellow/gold component on the right of the PCB is the actual gyro chip, the rest of the components most likely to deal with power conditioning. There’s not [...]
A new version of the colour sensor has been brought out by HiTechnic. It features a number of new abilities: Increased sensitivity; the sensor can determine a large object’s colour from up to 20 cm away. No longer needs an RGB LED but uses a bright white LED instead. The [...]
Ever wondered what an IR Seeker V2 looks like on the inside but didn’t have a spare $50 you could just throw away? Well wonder no more! I was given a pre-production IR Seeker by HiTechnic to write a RobotC driver for it. The lens cap on it wasn’t as [...]
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