Session 10

 

Today we had the opportunity to use a flame and line sensor. These integrations were added to our VEX robot and with a bit more of programming will allow us implement them in to our competition task. It has been difficult getting our sensor values to read a close flame in the range of it stopping once approaching it. We must make this sensor value work better for our robot.

Toy Hacking

This is a picture of the toy that I will be hacking for Project 1.

 

My stuffed angel bear has a built in motor, and small set of speakers. I have hacked and soldered the wires of the motor of the animal. The small sound device inside has also been stripped in order to have the programmable music of the "Kurby Theme Song"

 

 

The "Kurby Theme Song" Plays after a push button has been pushed. This then has an input in a MSPS430 and allows for an output pin for the music. Correspondily, the push button also works to allow for the flow of electricity parallel to existing music into a HBride as illustrated in the video below. Therefore, the robot dances to its own beat.

 

 

and stop dancing when there is a pause(empty note).

Session 9

My partner Bob and I had a difficult time building the physical aspects of our robot and did not have enough time to program it completely. Yet, the experience was motivative to do more (=

Session 8

Today I was working on the bi-dectional control for the motor of my robot. I found that this avenue would not be advantegeous for me to persue any further at this moment in time because I can use the HBridge, a much easier way to manipulate the toy's motor.

Session 7

MPSP430 Music light show reacted to the beat of the music as it would turn on with it and off otherwise.

Testing the HBridge was a good method to make the motor of the robot move. This will be interesting to implement into my final product.

Session 6

 

In this class session we explored the ability of transistors to cheaply and effectively deliver a certain amount of current through a circuit.

 

Using the correct type of transistor has its perks, for example, and amplified light bulp at its correct and intense state of eminescence.

Session 5

 

MPSP430 Flashing LED ran on a program type by me. It was neat seeing the colors run in sequence.

 

 

The LED Flashing Band was also interesting because it provided for a more sophisticated program to make this increment in speed possible with a increasing loop.

Session 4

 

Today I finished working with the circuits of my switches. This resulted in alternating LED red and green implements on the breadboard.

 

 

I finalized the day by semi-contructing the bottom base of the square bot. It was frustrating but fun at the same time.

Session 3

The amout of resistance determined how much electricity was recerived by the LED's, and therefore how intense their light was in the dark.

 

Another thing that was done today were the use of two double throw switches to alternatively turn on and off a light switch (=

Session 2

The first thing I did this thursday was build a series of lights with varying and increasing resistances. This breadboard shows the way light intensity decreases with an increase of resistance.

Another fun thing I did today was use a Voltmeter. This device is intended to measure the voltage, so I used it to measure the wall socket.

Additionally, the Voltmeter has another neat fuction to work as a resistance measure. I set and attached a resistor to measure its resistance up to 2.946*10^3 ohms
 

Session 1

This was the bottom side of a breadboard that I built today using resistors and some capacitors. They are soldered on the opposite side.

This side of the breadboard I soldered shows the lead pools. They are of a conical shape and fully cover the copper base.

A continuous wire was assembled from two linear portions of cut and stripped wire. The final product was a loop with shrinking plastic for safe handling. 

We build a 5V power supply as our final project for the 1st day of class. It was tested and it had a good current at the end of the tip.