Week 15 final blog, team meeting.

Team meeting
attendant: all members
date: 12/9/2013
Discuss Motor trigger

                                            Mechanism of the motor trigger.
The Servo micro motor was installed to the trigger holder. The activation holder has not yet received.
The LED cube worked out perfectly

The LED cube worked perfectly. first part of project is done. The second part of our project is to created double motor trigger, which one motor will be turned on to trigger another motor that is connected to the LED Arjuino board. This part will be the switch of our LED cube. Unfortunately our fabricated parts are not yet printed. Further details will be updated soon.

Trigger Motor

LED cube 

This video shows our functioning LED cube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjXKELFozk8&feature=youtu.be

As a team, each of the member contributed their parts. Especially Jun, he spent hours and hours building the cube; however, we started our project very late due to a lack of materials. One thing that we can improve is our team meeting. We did not spend too much time on meeting and discuss every single issue that we might be facing, which is why we couldn't finish the project on time. Fortunately, the mainly part of our project worked out great.

Incomplete motor code.

This is an incomplete code for our trigger motor.(incomplete material)
servo mysero;

int pos= 0;
int inputpin=2;
int val=0;
void setup()
{
myservo.attach()
pinmode(inputpin,INPUT);
}
void loop()
{
val=digitalRead(inputpin);
val = digitalRead(inputpin);
if(val ==HIGH)
{
}
else {}
}

Week 14

The actual product comes out differently because we needed foam to stabilize the position of the LED; however, the idea stayed the same, the Anodes are directed inserted to the circuit board and soldered to wires that are connected to the Arjuino board.

As we can see, there are 16 wires connected to each column of the Anode legs of the LED, and each layer of the LED's cathode legs are linked to 4 wires in total. When the code runs, the circuit of each cathode and anodes will be connected to light the LED. With different codes, we can turn on whichever LED we want. The duration was also considered in the code, so that we can displace certain message on the cube.

Week 14 No team meeting.

All materials arrived. The LED cube will be build this week.
No team meeting this week.

Week 13

We could not start our project early since we ordered a lot of stuff from online. As well as the fabrication goes, we have not yet received some of our parts yet.

Week 13 Meeting

Team meeting
Attendant: Xiaoliang, Jun
Date 11/26/2013
Issues:
-The materials was not received because they were sent to a wrong address.
-The Arjuino code for the LED cube was done

Goal:
keeping track on materials and blog update.

Sample Code:

/*Blue LED Cube 4x4x4

** 

** Written: Paden Hogeland

**

*/

// Initalize our LED columns (positive)

int LEDPin[] = {0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15};

// Initalize the LED layers (ground)

int LayerPin[] = {16,17,18,19};

  int count = 0;

  int timer = 0,

      leadA,f1,f2,f3 = 0,

      leadB,f1B,f2B,f3B;

  int laps=0;

  int pause = 0;

int OuterEdge[] = {0,1,2,3,7,11,15,14,13,12,8,4};

// Setup

void setup(){

  // Set up LED columns as output

  for(int pin = 0; pin < 16 ; pin++ ){

    pinMode(LEDPin[pin],OUTPUT);

    digitalWrite(LEDPin[pin],LOW);

  }

  // Set up LED Layers as output

  for(int layer = 0; layer < 4; layer++){

    pinMode(LayerPin[layer], OUTPUT);

    digitalWrite(LayerPin[layer], HIGH);

  }

}

// The Loop

void loop(){

  

  /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

  //  This increments the layers from top to bottom

  /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

  digitalWrite(LEDPin[0],HIGH);

  digitalWrite(LEDPin[1],HIGH);

  digitalWrite(LEDPin[2],HIGH);

  digitalWrite(LEDPin[3],HIGH);

  digitalWrite(LEDPin[4],HIGH);

  digitalWrite(LEDPin[5],HIGH);

  digitalWrite(LEDPin[6],HIGH);

  digitalWrite(LEDPin[7],HIGH);

  digitalWrite(LEDPin[8],HIGH);

  digitalWrite(LEDPin[9],HIGH);

  digitalWrite(LEDPin[10],HIGH);

  digitalWrite(LEDPin[11],HIGH);

  digitalWrite(LEDPin[12],HIGH);

  digitalWrite(LEDPin[13],HIGH);

  digitalWrite(LEDPin[14],HIGH);

  digitalWrite(LEDPin[15],HIGH);

  digitalWrite(LayerPin[0],HIGH); 

  digitalWrite(LayerPin[1],HIGH); 

  digitalWrite(LayerPin[2],HIGH); 

  digitalWrite(LayerPin[3],HIGH); 

  count = 1;

  pause = 1;

   while(count < 500){

     digitalWrite(LayerPin[0],LOW);    

     delay(pause);

     digitalWrite(LayerPin[0],HIGH);

     digitalWrite(LayerPin[1],LOW);    

     delay(pause);

     digitalWrite(LayerPin[1],HIGH);

     digitalWrite(LayerPin[2],LOW);    

     delay(pause);

     digitalWrite(LayerPin[2],HIGH);

     digitalWrite(LayerPin[3],LOW);    

     delay(pause);

     digitalWrite(LayerPin[3],HIGH); 

   count++;  

   }

   

   

  // Set up LED columns as output

  for(int pin = 0; pin < 16 ; pin++ ){

    digitalWrite(LEDPin[pin],LOW);

  }

  // Set up LED Layers as output

  for(int layer = 0; layer < 4; layer++){

    digitalWrite(LayerPin[layer], HIGH);

  }  

  

    /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

  //  This increments the layers from top to bottom

  /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

  // Set up LED columns as output

  for(int pin = 0; pin < 16 ; pin++ ){

    digitalWrite(LEDPin[pin],HIGH);

  }

  count = 1;

  pause = 1;

   while(count < 80){

     digitalWrite(LayerPin[0],LOW);    

     delay(count);

     digitalWrite(LayerPin[0],HIGH);

     digitalWrite(LayerPin[1],LOW);    

     delay(count);

     digitalWrite(LayerPin[1],HIGH);

     digitalWrite(LayerPin[2],LOW);    

     delay(count);

     digitalWrite(LayerPin[2],HIGH);

     digitalWrite(LayerPin[3],LOW);    

     delay(count);

     digitalWrite(LayerPin[3],HIGH); 

   count++;  

   }

   

   

  // Set up LED columns as output

  for(int pin = 0; pin < 16 ; pin++ ){

    digitalWrite(LEDPin[pin],LOW);

  }

  // Set up LED Layers as output

  for(int layer = 0; layer < 4; layer++){

    digitalWrite(LayerPin[layer], HIGH);

  }  

   /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

   // Following Design

   //  The top Led leads the other LEDs around the outside of the Cube

   ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

   // Initalize the columns for the LED's

   

   leadA=0;

   f1=11;

   f2=10;

   f3=9;

   leadB=6;

   f1B=5;

   f2B=4;

   f3B=3;

   count = 0; 

   while(count < 500){

     // Sets the time they all display or "blink together" to our eyes

     while(timer<10){

       digitalWrite(LayerPin[3],LOW);

       digitalWrite(LEDPin[OuterEdge[leadA]],HIGH);

       if(laps=1){

         digitalWrite(LEDPin[OuterEdge[leadB]],HIGH);

       }

       delay(3);

       digitalWrite(LEDPin[OuterEdge[leadA]],LOW);

       digitalWrite(LEDPin[OuterEdge[leadB]],LOW);

       digitalWrite(LayerPin[3],HIGH);

       digitalWrite(LayerPin[2],LOW);

       digitalWrite(LEDPin[OuterEdge[f1]],HIGH);

       if(laps=1){

         digitalWrite(LEDPin[OuterEdge[f1B]],HIGH);

       }

       delay(3);

       digitalWrite(LEDPin[OuterEdge[f1]],LOW);  

       digitalWrite(LEDPin[OuterEdge[f1B]],LOW);       

       digitalWrite(LayerPin[2],HIGH);

       digitalWrite(LayerPin[1],LOW);

       digitalWrite(LEDPin[OuterEdge[f2]],HIGH);

       if(laps=1){

         digitalWrite(LEDPin[OuterEdge[f2B]],HIGH);

       }

       delay(3);

       digitalWrite(LEDPin[OuterEdge[f2]],LOW);  

       digitalWrite(LEDPin[OuterEdge[f2B]],LOW);

       digitalWrite(LayerPin[1],HIGH);

       digitalWrite(LayerPin[0],LOW);

       digitalWrite(LEDPin[OuterEdge[f3]],HIGH);

       if(laps=1){

         digitalWrite(LEDPin[OuterEdge[f3B]],HIGH);

       }

       delay(3);

       digitalWrite(LEDPin[OuterEdge[f3]],LOW);    

       digitalWrite(LEDPin[OuterEdge[f3B]],LOW);      

       digitalWrite(LayerPin[0],HIGH);       

       timer++;

       count++;

     }

     timer=0;

     leadA++;

     f1++;

     f2++;

     f3++;

     leadB++;

     f1B++;

     f2B++;

     f3B++;

     if(leadA>11){

       leadA = 0;

       laps = 1;

     }

     if(f1>11){

       f1 = 0;

     }

     if(f2>11){

       f2 = 0;

     }

     if(f3>11){

       f3 = 0;

     }

     if(leadB>11){

       leadB = 0;

     }

     if(f1B>11){

       f1B = 0;

     }

     if(f2B>11){

       f2B = 0;

     }

     if(f3B>11){

       f3B = 0;

     }

     

   }

   

   count = 500;

   

     // Set up LED columns as output

  for(int pin = 0; pin < 16 ; pin++ ){

    digitalWrite(LEDPin[pin],LOW);

  }

  // Set up LED Layers as output

  for(int layer = 0; layer < 4; layer++){

    digitalWrite(LayerPin[layer], HIGH);

  }  

  pause = 130;

  while(count < 500){

    digitalWrite(LayerPin[0],HIGH);

    digitalWrite(LayerPin[3],LOW);

    digitalWrite(LEDPin[7],HIGH);

    delay(pause);

    digitalWrite(LayerPin[3],HIGH);

    digitalWrite(LayerPin[2],LOW);

    digitalWrite(LEDPin[7],HIGH);

    delay(pause);

    digitalWrite(LayerPin[2],HIGH);

    digitalWrite(LayerPin[1],LOW);

    digitalWrite(LEDPin[7],HIGH);

    delay(pause);

    digitalWrite(LayerPin[1],HIGH);

    digitalWrite(LayerPin[0],LOW);

    digitalWrite(LEDPin[7],HIGH);

    delay(pause);

    count++;

  }

  count = 0;    

}

Fabrication

Motor trigger holder

motor activation holder

LED soldering holder