The gyro sensor

Westgarth robotics team
May 10, 2016
1 min read

This session was about the gyro sensor, which is a digital sensor that detects rotational motion on a single axis. The sensor measures the rate of rotation in degrees per second so can tell when a part of the robot is turning or when the robot is going to fall over.

First Dan and Craig explained what the gyro sensor does and we learnt about how important it is to hold the sensor still when it is plugged into the EV3 so the sensor can be calibrated to understand what is still so it can use this as a standard to measure against when measuring the rotational angle. We connected the robots to the ipads and copied the sample program, getting our robots to turn and stop at a 45 degree angle.

Everyone completed this task, so we moved on for more of a challenge, getting the robot to turn in the shape of a Z.

and then a star

It was pretty challenging, and the gyro sometimes did some weird things, but we learnt a lot and everyone worked well together. It was nice to see everyone helping each other out and it was great to have some more robots so we could have smaller groups.

Coming up next time May 17th Robogals and the color sensor!