Lego Power Functions!

[cashmore1990]

Hi All,

First post here, just wanted to share a module I've written for the Tessel Infrared module. If any of you out there have any LEGO with Power Functions you can now control them with your Tessel...because, why not?!

Would love to hear any feedback or see how anyone has used it.

https://github.com/andrewcashmore/node-lego-ir

Have a good day all!

[jon]

I don't have any IR legos with me but this library really makes me want to buy some

[Kelsey]

ohh this is excellent! Shared your project on Twitter & with Nodebots

[Kelsey]

PS I encourage you to submit a project to tessel.io/projects showing this off! Lots of people look there when exploring to see what they can do with Tessel.

[cashmore1990]

Do it, do it, do it

[cashmore1990]

Thank you Kelsey! I will post it there now! (edit - Or rather, I will once I have some pictures! haha)

[jon]

@cashmore1990 you should submit this as a Tessel Third Party Module!

[cashmore1990]

Thanks Jon, I had a look at the form, think that's meant for hardware modules and mine is just based off Tessels IR module @Kelsey I presume I can't submit it as it's only an npm module? Thanks for the mention on the email by the way!

[Kelsey]

Oh, hm, I suppose you're right. Though it's an interesting scenario, since I think a lot of people who go looking for community modules would probably be excited to see they can use LEGO hardware with Tessel. Let me bring that up with the team and get some more opinions.

[Kelsey]

Yeah, I think you should be fine to submit! You're enabling a new hardware use case

[cashmore1990]

Haha brilliant I will do it now I reckon it'll be a cool module to teach kids to code...what kid doesn't want to play with Lego!?

[Kelsey]

*adults. Everyone wants to play with Lego

[cashmore1990]

I'm admitting nothing haha (but yes, definitely!)

[Kelsey]

It's live! https://tessel.io/modules#lego

[cashmore1990]

You've been way too good to me! haha I owe you Kelsey!