Tag: arduino UNO

Week 5 – Getting the Materials and Testing

After some basic planning I decided on getting the materials ready.  So I did some research and look for what I needed.

  • Hood – Fabric
  • Arduino Uno R3 x1
  • Breadboard (small) x1
  • Batteries 5V
  • Gears ( Various Sizes)
  • Wires
  • Joystick Controller x1
  • Servos x8
  • Wooden Board

And waiting for some time, the materials has arrived.

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Getting to know Arduino:

Spend a day trying to figure how servos and joystick work. A joystick that can sense both x and y axis, then a click button. The x and y axis sensors are actually 2 built in potentiometer and the click is just a simple button interface. I also tried to see how working with 9G servos. Apparently the once I ordered only have 180 degrees sweep. But I worked around it by using gears.

Concept- Flight

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Mother earth has given us instincts to stay alive, move and think. Birds can fly, they spread their wings naturally, almost without a thought. Same with the human mind, ideas come instinctive to us as natural as flight does to those wings. I chose wings to represent the concept of idealization because more often than not, imagination takes us higher and let us soar.

Environmental sustainability requires innovation and solutions. No matter what we want to create, we need to use what the earth has. And without the earth we cannot soar towards advancement. Thus, I chose to create the wings from recyclable materials to show the importance of environmental conservation.

The hood is just for aesthetics to cover up the wires and the battery.

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This is a rough sketch of the mechanism for the upwards movement. I am still deciding on the lateral movements and if I need more sophisticated systems. Currently, I have decided to work with an Arduino UNO R3 with double 9G servos. But I will perfect the design once I have perfected the movement of the wings.

Here are some references that I used to come up with the mechanisms:

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And the reference for the hood:

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