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• Writing the report

  Vincent Dankbaar • 04/11/2019 at 12:46 • 0 comments

  Writing the report took up approximately 6 hours of our time. Spread out over multiple weeks whenever we had time.

• 20-2-2019

  Vincent Dankbaar • 02/20/2019 at 20:55 • 0 comments

  Finalised the arduino script for the tower, combining all the previous test scripts.

  Time: 55 minutes

• 17-2-2019

  Vincent Dankbaar • 02/17/2019 at 16:55 • 0 comments

  Used Autodesk Tinkercad to create an adapter for the shaft of the stepper motor.

  Time: 20 minutes

• 13-2-2019

  Vincent Dankbaar • 02/13/2019 at 19:17 • 0 comments

  All the parts for the stepper assembly arrived.
  

  1 hour: Setup and soldering

  30 minutes: Connecting the parts and running a simple test script

  //Test script
  
  // defines pins numbers
  const int stepPin = 3; 
  const int dirPin = 4; 
   
  void setup() {
    // Sets the two pins as Outputs
    pinMode(stepPin,OUTPUT); 
    pinMode(dirPin,OUTPUT);
  }
  void loop() {
    digitalWrite(dirPin,HIGH); // Enables the motor to move in a particular direction
  
    // 200 pulses = full rotation
    for(int x = 0; x < 200; x++) {
      digitalWrite(stepPin,HIGH); 
      delayMicroseconds(1000); 
      digitalWrite(stepPin,LOW); 
      delayMicroseconds(1000); 
    }
    delay(1000);
    
    digitalWrite(dirPin,LOW); //Changes the rotations direction
    // 400 pulses == 2 rotations
    for(int x = 0; x < 400; x++) {
      digitalWrite(stepPin,HIGH);
      delayMicroseconds(1000);
      digitalWrite(stepPin,LOW);
      delayMicroseconds(1000);
    }
    delay(1000);
  }

  The correct color order left to right with the pot on the left side is: Red-Green-

• Bringing the log up to speed

  Vincent Dankbaar • 02/11/2019 at 15:53 • 0 comments

  The project was started before I added it to hackaday, this is our progress thus far:

  4-2-2019, Marco & Vincent, 2 uur, Building distance to coordinate mapping algorithm

  7-2-2019, Vincent, 2 uur 45 min, Converting the algorithm to C++ for the arduino

  8-2-2019, Marco & Vincent, 50 min, Testing the Ultrasone sensor

  9-2-2019, Vincent, 1 uur 30 minuten, Writing a script to make the ultrasone sensor more usable

  10-2-2019, Vincent, 1 uur, Research into stepper motors

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