Sunday, December 8, 2013

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.



Thursday, December 5, 2013

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 {}
}

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

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.

Monday, December 2, 2013

Week 14 No team meeting.

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