Week 3

Week three saw us starting with a new arduino due to the fact that the previous arduino suffered technical difficulties and was unable to execute the coding the way we expected but once a new arduino was acquired the code for bi directional was applied by cillian and our motors were completed. Next we moved onto adding the switch to our circuit. This switch would be used as an indicator for the robot to know when it has tipped the can and reverse backwards away from the can once it has done so.

As seen in the image above, a red wire was soldered to the open leg of the switch and another yellow wire to the common leg of the switch (colour coding of wires to be found in week 1). We then tested the switch with the motors connected as can be seen in the video below.

As you can see the switch worked as intended with the motors allowing us to move on with the rangefinder finalising our preparations for week 5’s tip the can competition. As i wasn’t available this week you can find a more in depth version of the accounts of this week on my fellow colleagues pages @ https://cillianrobosumo.wordpress.com/2020/02/21/week-4-rangefinder-and-final-preparations-for-tip-the-can/ or @ https://ericsrobosumophotography.photo.blog/blog-feed/.