Finally, a Maze! That Tilts!

The mechanism worked as planned, and the fabricated parts functioned exactly as expected. Due to the somewhat surprising success of this first iteration of the project there is little reason to redesign any of the original parts.

Full Assembly

Individual Parts to be Manufactured

Week of Nov 18

This week the assembly of the final project was completed in solidworks, following the finalization of our design. The parts are ready for printing, we are just meeting once more to confirm there is nothing else we need to add and to confirm that the total volume of the parts, with support structures, are under the four cubic inch limit. We are still rounding up the last of the extraneous materials for the project.

Week of Nov. 11th Progress Summary

This week we meet to finalize our concept and make sure all members were in agreement over our goals. We drew up an initial sketch of the physical mechanism and finished writing the code that will control the mechanism from three separate Arduino boards. We discussed what needed to be done for the following week, and allocated further software development to Maulik Patel, the modeling in Solidworks to Justin Wood, and gathering of materials and blog maintenance to Damien Laird.

Finish Detection with Photoresistor and LCD

	#include <LiquidCrystal.h>
	// These are the global variable for the photo resister
	const int sensorPin = 0;
	const int ledPin = 9;
	int lightLevel
	// Initialize the library with the pins we're using.
	LiquidCrystal lcd(12,11,5,4,3,2);
	void setup()
	{
	// We're using one that's 2 lines of 16 characters,
	// so we'll initialize it:
	lcd.begin(16, 2);
	// sets the pin to output
	pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT);
	// This command will clear the screen
	lcd.clear();
	// command below is used to print on the screen
	lcd.print("Let the games begain");
	}
	void loop()
	{
	// checks the input from the photo resister
	lightLevel = analogRead(sensorPin);
	// if the photo resister is covered with the object
	// then the lcd would print.
	if( lightLevel == HIGH ){
	lcd.clear();
	lcd.print("YOU WIN!!");
	}
	}

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Servo Control via Potentiometer

	#include <Servo.h> // servo library
	Servo servo1; // servo control object
	// analog input initialization
	int sensorPin = A0;
	void setup()
	{
	servo1.attach(9);
	}
	void loop()
	{
	int sensorValue;
	// read sensor value
	sensorValue = analogRead(sensorPin);
	// map the inout value to usable range
	int tilt = map(sensorValue , 0, 1023, 13, 168 );
	// writes to the servo so it would tilt
	servo1.write( tilt );
	}

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