Today during class we were given time to work on our projects from the following class meeting. Also, we were introduced to a program called Fritzing. This program allows us to create a visual schematic for how we wired up our projects. The wiring schematic is good for cataloging our work in an easy to read format for anyone who would want to replicate the project we worked on.
Just to get started i created a simple schematic for wiring up a single LED using Fritzing.
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| (screen shot of the Fritzing program) |
Working on the project was getting close to finishing up. The pet box has come along way from the initial brainstorming. Today we were able to retrofit the PIR sensor, the fur, and the RGB LEDs that are going to be on the front of the box. Also the eyebrows for the pet box are mounted on to a couple VEX gears and attached to the servo. Directly behind the servo is the PIR sensor pointed to the back of the box that will detect the "petting" movement on its fur. Underneath the head of the box will be the action for the Arduino and soldered circuit board for all the resistors and LEDs to be switched on and off but a switch mounted to the front.
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| (the pet box with included RGBs and PIR) |
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| (laser cutting out the pattern for the pet box) |
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| (test fitting and gluing pieces together) |
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| (assembling the head portion of the pet box) |
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| (both boxes assembled partially until we instal electronics) |
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| (assembling servo with VEX gears to move eyebrows) |
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| (testing the movement of the eyebrows) |
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(wiring up of Arduino and sensors to breadboard) |
More to come for the Pet Box...
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