DIYmall 10pcs/Pack IR Infrared Obstacle Avoidance Sensor for Arduino Smart Car Robot IR Transmitting and Receiving Tube Photoelectric Switch

hi i'm aleister i'm a games designer and one of the things i love about designing escape room games is that you can create some really physical hands-on interactions so players have to hit buttons or pull levers or spin dials but it's 2020 and one of the things we're being told to try to reduce the transmission of coronavirus is to reduce the number of shared surfaces that people touch so i wonder whether it would be possible to design an input for an escape room puzzle that was covered secure and could take the place of a button but not actually require players to touch anything and over the course of the next few videos i'm going to look at some different components you can use to achieve that in this video i'm going to start off by looking at one of these this is an infrared obstacle avoidance sensor it's very cheap they're very easy to get online and they're very easy to use so let