Vernier Software & Technology has partnered with LEGO Education, National Instruments, Tufts University, and Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Academy to bring robotics to the forefront of education. Vernier has developed an adapter for the LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT Robotics System. The NXT Sensor Adapter has a LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT socket on one end and a Vernier analog socket on the other end that can connect to more than 30 of Vernier’s analog (BTA) sensors.
“Combining the NXT program with Vernier sensors allows teachers and students to build robots that can react to temperature, light, pH balance, ultraviolet light and much more,” said David Vernier, co-founder of Vernier and former physics teacher.
“These added capabilities allow for sensor-based control systems, which bring even more ingenuity to robotics projects while keeping the tasks in line with fundamental science concepts.”
The LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT software enables users to program their NXT robotic invention and upload programs to the NXT robotics platform via USB or Bluetooth connectivity. The robotics system and adapter also work with National Instruments’ LabVIEW™, a graphical programming language that Vernier sells for high school use, and ROBOLAB, a programming language from the Center for Engineering Outreach (CEEO) at Tufts University.
For more information, visit www.vernier.com.
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