Nov
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Intro Pcomp: week 7 - lab
November 6, 2007 |
Controlling a Motor
I belatedly completed this lab (midterms and the subsequent post-midterm coma kept me down a bit) and actually found it quite easy and straight-forward.
There’s not much to report except to say that I did it. I had a little trouble at first figuring out that I was not supposed to use a servo motor but was saved from a near servo-disaster by a kind on-looker. So anyhow, here are some pics of my motor experience:
And then creativity. Hmm. This could have interesting applications on a really simple level as a knitter’s sidekick. I knit (yeah, I know…I knit) and something that’s always driving me crazy is winding yarn and then pulling out enough at a time for a few stitches. If you don’t have enough slack in the yarn, it pulls at your stitches and makes your whole piece bunch and crumple in weird ways. A yarn motor could help make organized yarn spools and also easily let out yarn…like a fishing reel. I’ll post some pics of that when I finish it…