Friday, December 12, 2014

This is the final version of the arduino and breadboard controlling the bat, speakers, and LED strip. It will be connected to the clock and light sensor on pin 7 to receive either a HIGH or LOW signal. It took a long time to play around with each individual component and the way it was wired. I would say the most difficult part was the LED strip. I needed to use a transistor to power it but the one in the sparkfun kit was not large enough to power the entire strip which was originally 10m long. I had to calculate the mount of LED's the transistor could handle, cut the strip there, and rewire it. Even after this I was having a lot of trouble getting the transistor to behave the way I wanted it to. Eventually I realized I had the pins wrong and was able to fix it. The servo was also fairly challenging to control but I used a sweep function I designed in a lab earlier this semester and it did the trick. The speakers were fairly straight forward once we got them plugged in.

No comments:

Post a Comment