3 month project based on consumer heating. This was a fun project and some is shown below Full report and Appendix. Rendered Exploded View
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Arduino – Week 4 – Robot
The final week task was to program a robot which would move by itself and avoid objects Unfortunately this wasn’t completed due to time constraints, although most of the code for the movements was completed and fully working The board was attached to the chassis with metal standoff – which did short the board out […]
Arduino – Week 3 – Displays and Ultrasonic sensors
Arduino LCD Displays Wire up the arduino using these following instructions VCC (Red) to 5V Ground/GND (Black) to GND SDA (Blue) to A4 SCL (Yellow) to A5 The code used was downloaded adn the library installed in the specific location. Ensure that the LCD drivers are included in the same folder #include <Wire.h> // Comes […]
Arduino – Week 2 – Stepper Motors
What is a stepper motor? A stepper motor uses opposing electromagnets to create rotation. The different number of steps are determined by the number of poles on each the stator and the rotor. There are several different types of stepper motor, depending on the use case and the size that is required. The main types […]
Arduino – Week 1 – Software Notes
Pulse Width Modulation Using ‘unsigned char’ to replace values > ‘unsigned char’ allows you to control all of the same variables in a sketch by only changing one value unsigned char DelayTime = 255; unsigned char LEDoutput = 2; // the setup function runs once when you press reset or power the board […]
Week 6 – Embedded programmer
The task this week was to program the board that we made using the CNC router. There are several levels to this week, some being ‘simple’ and some being advanced. The main goal was to upload some sort of program to our Echo Hello World Plus board and ensure that it completed the function that […]
Week 5 : Electronics Design
The task this week was to create the schematic, board layout and then mill the simple LED circuit board. Autodesk Eagle is the circuit-board software that we used > Installing it was relatively easy as it was just a simple installation but to get the correct components for the FAB LAB, downloading the library of […]
Week 4 : Electronic Production
Surface mount components are very common and are what the majority of manufacturers will use due to the smaller size, compared to through components. It seems fairly easy to use them, although the mounting of these components, via soldering is vastly different to through hole components. Through hole components have the obvious advantage of being […]