Arduino and LEGO Projects

About the Technical Reviewer Brian Evans is an artist working in electronic media and Assistant Professor of Art at Metropolitan State University of Denver, where he teaches multidisciplinary courses in art on topics that include electronics and digital fabrication. He is the author of Beginning Arduino Programming (Apress, 2011) and Practical 3D Printers (Apress, 2012). He received an MFA from California State University, Long Beach in 2008, and a BFA from Arizona State University in 2005. xiii

Acknowledgments Jon would like to thank Mike and Lee for helping him come out of his LEGO “dark ages” and become the AFOL LEGO builder he is today. Thanks to Marwan for his assistance with the Arduino controller for the LEGO Power Functions train. And thanks to Brian for looking at the code for the projects and cleaning up and improving it. A special thank you to the British Broadcasting Company for the permission to include the TARDIS in this book and for 50 years of Doctor Who. xv