Testing

My first go designing and making an output device was in week 7 and this week was interesting for me since I have very little experience with electronics and programing. It's because of that that I've decided to first make what I wanted with some user friendly hardware in the form of Arduino Uno. My goal was to imitate movement so I choose to use a Flux sensor and a servo motor, so that the movement of the former controls the later. I've found a very helpful guide on Sparkfun.

I didn't have a 10KΩ resistor so I used five 2.2KΩ resistors and connected them in a line.

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After I connected everything I searched for a compatible code and after playing with a few found this one:

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The code:

#include <Servo.h> int flexpin=A0; int pos=90; Servo myservo; int flex[20]; int flexsum=0; void setup() { myservo.attach(8); Serial.begin(9600); } void loop() { for(int x=0; x<20; x++) { flex[x]=analogRead(flexpin); flexsum=flexsum+analogRead(flexpin); delayMicroseconds(14); } flexsum=flexsum/20; if(Serial.available()) { Serial.println(flexsum); delay(100); } pos=map(flexsum,870,800,0,180); myservo.write(pos); delay(200); }

Making

My next step was to make my own board with Eagle so I went back to the hello-world board and added a servo and a flex sensor input.

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After planing the board with Eagle and designing it with Inkscape I milled it using the modela.

You can find my files for this week here

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