Individual Assignment:
1- add an output device to a microcontroller board you've designed, and program it to do something.
Group assignment:
2- measure the power consumption of an output device.
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1- add an output device to a microcontroller board you've designed, and program it to do something.

For this assignment, i wanted to control motors in order to learn more about them, since i will be using them in my final project. I desgined a new board that hopefully will help me during future assignments. i will be using Atmega328p Microcontroller as it very flexible and easy to use. I tried to make use of all the pins that are available to get most out of my board, Also I added a options to controll brushless motors and servo motors as this will be my goal for this assignment.

The Schematic


The Board


I Have Added as much inputs and outputs as i can to make sure that i can controll a wide range of sensors and devices.
Here you can see the added pins.
The green circle is for the battery
The Blue rectangles represent where the ESCs(Electronic speed Controllers) power and ground are going
The orange rectangles are for the PWM(pulse with modualating) pins on the At328p controller which are used to controll the brushless and servo motors.
The white ones are for FTDI, ISP, SDA & SCL and Extra anolog pins



The Servo motor i will be using is Servo Motor SG-90


I connected the Motor pins and a potentiometer to the PCB and uploaded this code to it

 
    
#include   // add servo library
 
Servo myservo;  // create servo object to control a servo
 
int potpin = 0;  // analog pin used to connect the potentiometer
int val;    // variable to read the value from the analog pin
 
void setup() {
  myservo.attach(9);  // attaches the servo on pin 9 to the servo object
}
 
void loop() {
  val = analogRead(potpin);            // reads the value of the potentiometer (value between 0 and 1023)
  val = map(val, 0, 1023, 0, 180);     // scale it to use it with the servo (value between 0 and 180)
  myservo.write(val);                  // sets the servo position according to the scaled value
  delay(15);                           // waits for the servo to get there
}
    

#define pinA 2

#include  
 
Servo myservo;  // create servo object to control a servo 
 
int potpin = 0;  // analog pin used to connect the potentiometer
int val;    // variable to read the value from the analog pin 
 
void setup() 
{ 
  myservo.attach(9);  // attaches the servo on pin 9 to the servo object 
} 
 
void loop() 
{ 
  val = analogRead(potpin);            // reads the value of the potentiometer (value between 0 and 1023) 
  val = map(val, 0, 1023, 0, 179);     // scale it to use it with the servo (value between 0 and 180) 
  myservo.write(val);                  // sets the servo position according to the scaled value 
  delay(15);                           // waits for the servo to get there 
}

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