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.