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Arduino Programming

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 Arduino Programming Welcome back to my blog, for this week I learned about the Arduino program by coding and using the Arduino board.  Before the practical, we learnt about the Arduino coding that we used during our practical which we were tasked to code a flapping mechanism to flap the wings of a cardboard unicorn. The tools given to work with were the Arduino box which we had, a servo and a long malleable wire. Pretty straightforward given the tools, we just had to tie the wire to the wings and hook the wire to the servo that is connected to the Arduino board. To make the wings flap using the servo, we use the sweep code menu and with the original code on the blackboard which was: /* Sweep by BARRAGAN <http://barraganstudio.com> This example code is in the public domain. modified 8 Nov 2013 by Scott Fitzgerald https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/LibraryExamples/Sweep */ #include <Servo.h> Servo myservo; // create servo object to control a servo // twelve...
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LASER CUTTING

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In the second week of CP5070, my group members and I were tasked to do a parametric design using the laser cutter. We had to do Stanard Operating Procedures (SOP) 24 hours before the practical day which we did in a table format and printed out and brought on the day of the practical which we used during the individual competency test which I had to operate the laser cutter and laser cut out a small rectangle with the word "test" engraved on it. As much as the SOP that I and my group members did was helpful, it was definitely the bare minimum for an SOP and there definitely could have been improvements and changes done for it to have been up to a good standard.  Hence I took the time to change and improve my group's SOP. The first change was obvious to all of us and that the font size was too big and the information wasn't easily accessible due to having to flip the pages. the page where another half of "safety" was at another page which needed to be flipped ...
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CAD

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Step by step on how to make a keyring prototype using Fusion360. Click on “Create a Sketch” (1) and select any plane (2). Click on “2-Point Rectangle” (3) and input measurements 65mm X 25mm. Select “Offset” (4) and click on the rectangle. Offset the sketch by -2mm. Select “Fillet” (5) and click on the 4 outer corners of the rectangle. Type 5mm and press Enter. Click on “Line” (6) to create a line down from the top to the bottom on the left side of the rectangle. Right-click on the line and select “Normal/Construction”. Select “Dimension” (7) and click on both lines (circled in red). Change dimension value to 7mm. Open “Create” and click on “Point” (8) to create a point in the middle of the line (Denoted by a triangle). Click on “Centre Diameter Circle” (9) and draw a 5mm circle from the point that was recently created. Select “Create” > “Text”. Type one short word with your desired font and adjust the height to fit the rectangle. (Using “Alignment” (10) makes adjusting easier). On...
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